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Pharmacy Doctoral Candidate Millidhashni Reddy Wins $10,000 Gran...

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 05/19/2011 - 10:54am

Millidhashni Reddy, a College of Pharmacy doctoral candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $10,000 Michael H.

Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the Graduate School/University Co-op Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education.

The Excellence in Graduate Education Awards recognize and reward outstanding graduate students for distinguished scholarship, research, writing and…   » Continue Reading



 

Professor receives outstanding research award

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Fri, 11/19/2010 - 2:37pm

Dr. James McGinity, professor of pharmaceutics in The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, has received the $10,000 Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award for outstanding research in powder technology and the design and development of novel oral dosage forms.

The award was presented by the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation at [...]



 

New commercial lab space project coming to UT

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 10/28/2010 - 12:42pm

The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the city of Austin have announced the creation of the UTech Dorm Room, a cooperative research laboratory designed to provide laboratory space for entrepreneurs to develop life-sciences technologies and evaluate their commercialization potential.

The UTech Dorm Room lab facility will be [...]



 

Researcher gets $2.1 million to study cystic fibrosis

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 09/28/2010 - 11:22am

A University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy researcher has received a $2.1 million grant to develop new techniques for drug delivery to the lungs, helping in the fight against such lung diseases as cystic fibrosis.

Dr. Hugh Smyth, assistant professor of pharmaceutics, was awarded the grant from the National Institute of Health's National Heart, [...]



 

Prof named to national society for pharmacists

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 09/15/2009 - 1:46pm

Diane Ginsburg, assistant dean and clinical professor of The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, has been elected president-elect of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

She becomes president of the organization in June 2010. Ginsburg specializes in ethics and the legal and regulatory aspects of pharmacy and healthcare.

As assistant dean for student [...]



 

Prof aims to lower pharmaceuticals' carbon footprint

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 9:05am

The eco-friendly green solvent ethyl lactate can be stabilized and used as a binding agent in the production and processing of pharmaceuticals, lowering the carbon footprint of the industry, a University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy researcher has found.

Jason McConville's research will be published in an upcoming issue of Pharmaceutical Technology. "It is widely [...]



 

Prof gets $2.6 million to develop Ebola vaccine

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Wed, 04/30/2008 - 1:29pm

Dr. Maria Croyle, associate professor of pharmaceutics at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, has received $2.6 million to develop a vaccine against Ebola virus infection.

With grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Research and Technology Initiative, Croyle will lead an international research team to study the immune responses [...]