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Rick Couldry selected as School of Pharmacy distinguished graduate
The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy has selected Rick Couldry, vice president of pharmacy and health professions at the University of Kansas Health System, for its 2025 Distinguished Graduate Award.
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Mon, 01/13/2025
The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy has selected Rick Couldry, vice president of pharmacy and health professions at the University of Kansas Health System, for its 2025 Distinguished Graduate Award.
Fri, 12/20/2024
A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that inflicts about 1 million people and kills about 30,000 people around the world every year.
Wed, 12/18/2024
Val Stella, university distinguished professor emeritus of pharmaceutical chemistry, served as a consultant in developing Vyalev, which is delivered subcutaneously to Parkinson’s patients through a wearable pump that’s smaller, more comfortable and effective at providing consistent dosage than previous delivery methods. The drug and its pump deliver levodopa (L-dopa)/carbidopa-based therapy with more consistency, so patients don’t have symptoms flaring and subsiding, especially following s
Wed, 12/04/2024
KU School of Pharmacy Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology Adam Smith is uniquely exploring the brain science of social stress. Smith and his graduate student researchers are looking for ways that pharmacology can intersect with neurobiology with a goal of finding potential therapies that can help people better navigate stress.
Thu, 06/13/2024
Mike Wolfe recalls that when he first heard Research Rising announced in 2021, he had yet to formulate ideas about using “big data”—a combination of artificial intelligence technology and its related computational field, machine learning—to develop drug molecules. His expertise is in medicinal chemistry, not advanced computing, but as he began to learn about big data’s applications being used in private industry, a plan soon came together.