- March 2008: Darin Furgeson, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleague Dr. Chris Brace, Assistant Scientist at the School of Medicine and Public Health and the College of Engineering, were awarded $70,000 from the University of Wisconsin W.H. Coulter Translational Research Partnership, for their proposal, "Microwave Thermal Ablation and Tumor Margin Directed Chemotherapy for Cancer Eradication." The funding forms a working partnership with the biomedical engineering department to promote, develop and support translational research via a number of initiatives, including funding promising research projects, increasing and supporting effective collaborations between biomedical engineers and clinicians, and developing and supporting sustainable methods for moving promising technologies into clinical application.
- February 2008: An article co-authored by Glen Kwon, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is named fifth among the "ten most highly cited articles in 2007" by the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- February 2008: The bacteria research of Ben Shen, the Charles M. Johnson Chair in the School of Pharmacy and professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences, may change the view of chemistry and chemotherapy and is highlighted in the February 27 edition of Wisconsin Week. Shen's blend of basic and applied chemistry in the area of natural products has been instrumental in launching a National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group (NCDDG) on campus.
- January 2008: The sugar research work of Jon Thorson, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleagues at the School of Pharmacy continues to gain recognition in both the drug development and discovery arenas as highlighted in the January 19 edition of the Wisconsin State Journal.
- January 2008: A group led by Ben Shen, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleagues at the School of Pharmacy were highlighted in the January 14, 2008 edition of Chemical & Engineering News in a news brief titled "New Chorismate Metabolic Pathway." more...