Guillermo Solorzano, MD: Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
2/8/2022
The Pharmacology department sends huge kudos out to Dr. Guillerm Solorzano. Dr. Solorzano is a former undergraduate student in Pharmacology, and Lab Tech in Doug Bayliss's Lab . Currently, Dr.…
Congrats to Alexandra Kadl & Jeff Sturek: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research!
2/8/2022
The Pharmacology department would like to send kudos to Alexandra Kadl, PhD (Professor of Medicine and joint appointee in Pharmacology) & Jeff Sturek (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Student…
Congratulations to Carl Creutz, PhD- 2021 Kadner Award Recipient!
2/7/2022
The Pharmacology Department sends kudos to Dr. Carl Creutz, Professor of Pharmacology, for being the recipient the 2021 Robert J. Kadner Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching. This award is presented…
Fundamental science can find real world application in unexpected – and important – ways.
10/29/2021
Dr. Dorian Rosen (Pharmacology PhD, 2019), while working in the Alban Gaultier lab, showed that a common SSRI antidepressant, fluvoxamine, can also engage the sigma-1 receptor to dampen cytokine-mediate inflammatory…
Kudos go out to Philip Seegren: Recipient of the 2021Rall Award!
10/11/2021
Congratulations to Philip Seegren for being the recipient of the 2021 Ted W. Rall Award for the best paper by a Pharmacology Student published in the calendar year. He received…
Kudos to Drs. Lazo and Sharlow: KeViRx Awarded Second NIH R43 Grant
10/5/2021
KeViRx is an early stage drug discovery company spun out of the UVA Department of Pharmacology by Elizabeth Sharlow and John Lazo and located in Charlottesville. KeViRx was just awarded…
Kudos to Merci Best: STEAMKITX, a company that makes STEM and Arts kits
9/22/2021
The children are definitely our future, and with this in mind, Merci Best (Pharmacology Grad Student in George Bloom's Lab) knows how important it is to keep them interested and…
Kudos to Mark Kester: nanoSTAR Summer Program for Entrepreneurial Nanoscale Engineering
9/21/2021
The Pharmacology department sends kudos to Mark Kester, PhD, UVA Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, for making headlines for his excellent work with nanotechnology and…
Kudos to the Guyenet & Okusa Labs for Recent Publication in PNAS
9/13/2021
Maybe you missed the latest paper detailing the work of a UVA SOM collaboration between the Department of Pharmacology and Nephrology. Dr. Shinji Tanaka from the Okusa lab (Nephrology) and the…
Congratulations to Matteo Ottolini- PhD Dissertation Defense!
8/5/2021
Motteo Ottoloni (Pharmacology Graduate Student in Dr.Swapnil Sonkusare's Lab), will be presenting his Dissertation Defense on Thursday, August 19, 2021. He will be talking about, "Endothelial TRPV4 Channel Signaling in…