Pharmacy Students Report Both Motivators, Barriers to Attending Class Pre-, Post-Pandemic

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December 7, 2021
Student pharmacist Cara Rutledge (Pharm.D. Class of 2022) wrote an article for the Pharmacy Times about her honors program thesis which aimed to address the various complexities of student motivation, engagement and attendance in relation to mastery of course material.

UT Pharmacy Students Reflect on the Pandemic, Look to the Future

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December 1, 2021
UT student pharmacists Kailee Marikar, Sadaf Helforoosh, Hannah McCullough, Agaustin Wong and Cara Rutledge talked to the Pharmacy Times’ Skylar Kenney about their experiences balancing their studies in the midst of the pandemic and how COVID-19 showed a pharmacist's vital role in public health.

PharmE3D Labs Receive R01 Grant for Complex Vaccine Technologies

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September 24, 2021
The College of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) Labs recently earned a three-year $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant to research novel manufacturing technology for complex vaccine formulations for influenza and other emerging infectious diseases.

PharmE3D Labs Earn Multiple Pharmaceutical Science Distinctions

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September 10, 2021
The college's Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) labs, led by Assistant Professor in Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Mohammed (Mo) Maniruzzaman, Ph.D., has recently earned several national and international awards and scholarships for outstanding research contributions to the field of pharmaceutical science and technology.

Williams Talks to KXAN About How Thin Film Freezing Can Help Treat COVID Patients

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July 30, 2021
Division Head and Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Dr. Bill Williams was on KXAN News to talk about promising new data from TFF Pharmaceuticals and Augmenta Bioworks. The companies plan to develop Dr. Williams' thin film freezing technology to better deliver antibody treatment directly to the lungs of COVID patients.

Maniruzzaman Lab Earns Grant to Research 3D Printed COVID-19 Treatment

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May 26, 2021
The UT College of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) Lab earned a Texas Global Faculty Research Seed Grant for its work on patient-specific treatment of COVID-19.

Faculty Honored During 2021 Virtual Teaching Excellence Awards

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April 9, 2021
Pharmacy Council announced the winners of 2021’s Teaching Excellence Awards for the College of Pharmacy’s hardworking faculty during a virtual ceremony.

Suh and PharmE3D Labs Win Fellowships for 3D Bioprinting Research

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March 18, 2021
Student pharmacist Johana Suh earned an undergraduate fellowship award for research on 3D bioprinted modeling of the neurodegenerative disease NPC-1, or Niemann-Pick disease type C1. Suh is a second-year Doctor of Pharmacy candidate in the UT College of Pharmacy, and serves as an undergraduate researcher in the Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) Labs led by Mo Maniruzzaman, Ph.D.

Pharmacy Research Day 2021

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February 26, 2021
UT Pharmacy's Office for Research and Graduate Studies has announced the 17th Annual Louis C. Littlefield Celebrating Pharmacy Research Excellence Day, which is scheduled for Wednesday, April 14, 2021 as a synchronous online event that will allow for dynamic participant interactions. Registration and abstract submissions are now open, with abstracts due March 8.

Has a UT Professor Found a Way to Stop COVID-19 Vaccines From Spoiling?

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February 24, 2021
Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Professor Maria A. Croyle, Ph.D. received extensive coverage in the March 2021 edition of Texas Monthly regarding her innovative peelable film drug delivery research. Among its many potential applications, Dr. Croyle’s technology could deliver COVID-19 vaccines through a small oral strip, without need for refrigeration or extensive storage and transportation infrastructure.