Heidi Diez, PharmD’04, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy and clinical pharmacist specialist at Domino’s Farms Family Medicine, Michigan Medicine, received the prestigious Bowl of Hygeia Award during the 2023 Michigan Pharmacists Association Annual Convention & Exposition in Detroit, Michigan.  The Bowl of Hygeia Award, presented in cooperation with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the […]

The Michigan Pharmacy community came together on Friday, February 9 at the College’s annual Research Forum event. Karen Farris, PhD’93, associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate and undergraduate education, Charles R. Walgreen III Professor of Pharmacy Administration, welcomed attendees at the morning presentation session at the North Campus Research Complex. Two fellows and four […]

A key focus of Precision Health, drug gene interactions (DGIs) occur when a patient’s genome impacts how their body processes a drug.  “Reducing DGIs is important because it could help to decrease the likelihood that an individual experiences side effects to some medications or could help identify a medication that is more likely to work […]

Dear alumni, faculty, staff, and friends,    For this edition of the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy’s eInteractions newsletter, we are focusing on our amazing research enterprise. We recently held our annual Research Forum, where over 400 attendees recognized the College community’s impact on human health. In addition, several of our faculty have been […]

Dr. Varsha Bhatt-Mehta, retired clinical professor of pharmacy, died on February 16, 2023. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Manish Mehta; sons, Anshul (Shreena), Vishal (Manali-fiancée); and Belle (pet dog) who were all by her side in her last days, as well as a large family based in London, U.K. Read her obituary.  Dr. […]

By Madeline Swanson | Photos by Marc-Grégor Campredon Have you ever thought about where the next life-saving vaccine or medication may be discovered? Or where cutting-edge methods for monitoring medications in the body—like biosensors—are being developed? At the University of Michigan’s nationally recognized College of Pharmacy, students are gaining early exposure to the field and helping […]

Tim Cernak, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, is among the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s 2023 list of researchers who stand out as the next generation of leaders in scientific research. Dr. Cernak is one of three U-M researched awarded the annual fellowship intended to support tomorrow’s leaders in science and […]

By Kim North Shine, Michigan News Service. With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak‘s lab at the University of Michigan made a discovery that dramatically speeds up the time-consuming chemical process of building molecules that will be tomorrow’s medicines, agrichemicals or materials. The discovery, published in […]

Duxin Sun, PhD’02, associate dean for research, Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy, and professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has been named a 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are chosen by their peers for their “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” […]

By Laura Bailey, Michigan News Service Researchers can invent and test millions of molecules quickly, but to develop successful new drugs, agrochemicals and other futuristic materials, they must first synthesize the molecules—and outcomes are a gamble. To solve this problem, Timothy Cernak’s laboratory at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy was awarded $3 million […]