In 2025, Jeremy Barnes was one of two recipients honored with the School’s Sustained Perceptor Excellence Award! Barnes has been precepting for over seven years, helping students build essential skills in patient care and hospital #pharmacy. Learn more: https://bit.ly/42H98jo

Our new review paper on ACA Special Issue of Imaging Mass Spec 🥳🥳 We highlight recent advances in single-cell MSI, focusing on improved spatial resolution, molecular coverage, and analytical workflows. Congrats to Hua and co-authors 👏👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With help from alumni experts, a new course at the UW–Madison School of #Pharmacy teaches PharmD students the complex ecosystem of managed care. “We’re meeting a need for our students [...] they can take this knowledge & turn it into a career opportunity.” https://bit.ly/3Mkf3W0

Recyclable protein degraders developed by Quanyin Hu and Peixin Liu could boost cancer immunotherapy treatments by making them more durable and effective. @uwmadpharmacy.bsky.social #WisconsinInnovates

The Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center recently received an extension of their federal funding to continue their life-saving to get #opioid harm reduction supplies and education into communities throughout the state of #Wisconsin! https://bit.ly/44mEL2g

The fourth nominee for the 2025 WARF Innovation Awards is a team from @uwmadpharmacy.bsky.social that could improve cancer immunotherapy treatments by making them more durable and effective. #WisconsinInnovates

“We can help patients feel supported and in control,” says alum Kelly Thomas. As the first pharmacist in SSM Health Madison’s heart failure clinic, she’s seeing up to 10 patients a day, expanding access to care, and speeding dosage changes. https://bit.ly/3IYZRMM

Congratulations to alum Eugene McNally, vice president of PPD, is honored with a 2025 Citations of Merit from the School of Pharmacy! McNally is a leader in drug development, dedicated to teaching, drug discovery, and industry leadership: https://bit.ly/4a5zQXb

Pharmaceutical sciences student Tina Dang jumped at the opportunity to spend a summer interning at #Merck, working to advance safe and biologic therapies through mass spectrometry. “The experience has been incredible,” she says. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48VWoZR

With Wisconsin’s new provider status opening doors for #pharmacists, alum Eric Geurkink says the VA model shows what’s possible: shorter wait times, more efficient care, and teams freed to focus where it matters most. “Pharmacists are ready,” he says. https://bit.ly/4ojryPg

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Heather Barkholtz on being selected as a 2025–26 STRIDE Scholar through @uw-ictr.bsky.social! This early career faculty program will help her expand her mentor network & support her ongoing success: https://bit.ly/3Xyt7xz @barkholtz.bsky.social

“I love this job,” says alum Jim Olson. For nearly 50 years, he and his family have run Yellow River #Pharmacy, a #Wisconsin community staple and training ground for future #pharmacists. It all began with a chance meeting on a hunting trip: https://bit.ly/4ieVDhh

By giving study participants doses of Delta-8 or -9 or a placebo, then putting them behind the wheel in a driving simulator, Assistant Professor Heather Barkholtz explores how #cannabis products impact road safety. https://www.wpr.org/news/drugged-driving-concern-wisconsin-highways-marijuana

From patient to provider: After beating childhood leukemia, alum Chris Gitter pursued his MD to pay it forward and heal others the way he was healed. Today, he's an internal medicine resident at Duke. "I think it certainly makes me a better doctor," he says. https://bit.ly/4h33YE7

The Wisconsin #Opioid Overdose Response Center (WOORC) will continue its life-saving work for another year, thanks to a #SAMHSA grant extension. In its first year, WOORC reached 185K+ Wisconsinites through resources for 75+ community #pharmacies. https://bit.ly/4ozTaAd

#Pharmacist Brooke Foster is transforming pulmonary care at @froedtert.bsky.social#Pharmacist improving access, reducing readmissions, and supporting patients with #COPD, #asthma, CF, and biologics. “We’re trying to streamline getting people the right inhaler the first time.” ▶️ https://bit.ly/3IYZRMM

Through a new @uwmadison.bsky.social Research Forward grant supporting "high-risk, high-impact, and transformative" research, Professor Weiping Tang & collaborators explore how to degrade the protein aggregates linked to #neurodegenerative diseases like #Alzheimers. bit.ly/484f6xE

#COPD disease burden is highest in Wisconsin’s most rural counties, where patients often live far from specialty care. With a Baldwin #WisconsinIdea Grant, grad student Sara Hernandez pilots a #pharmacist-powered program to improve rural patient outcomes. https://bit.ly/43iLfPq

An #internship can make all the difference. Pharmaceutical Sciences grad student Yuan Zhao experienced life as an industry scientist during a 12-week internship at Genentech, where she where she identified peptides for colon #cancer treatment. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48VWoZR

“The whole landscape for #pharmacy is changing & evolving all the time. We had to bring a new concept,” says Mel de Villiers, vice dean of academic affairs at the School of Pharmacy, speaking about a newly redesigned #pharmacotherapy and #pharmacology course series. badgerherald.com/news/2025/10...

At Science on the Square, our Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students brought chemistry to life at the Phun with Pharmacy booth! Using a color-changing solution & OTC stomach relief medicine, they showed attendees how changes in the stomach’s acidity can lead to discomfort.

From the lab bench to patient care! Congrats to alum Harry Sharata, #dermatologist, educator & researcher, on receiving a 2025 Citation of Merit — the School’s highest annual honor! “Ultimately, what we do is take care of patients and alleviate suffering.” https://bit.ly/48Y3e1b

“#Pharmacists provide the most cost-effective triage there is,” says alum Shane Resch, owner of Gwidt #Pharmacy. He’s using provider status to expand care and push for Medicaid reimbursement across his rural #Wisconsin pharmacies. https://bit.ly/4hHMaP9

Terry Maves, an #Appleton community #pharmacist for decades, former @pharmacysocietywi.bsky.social#Appleton#pharmacistresident and chairman and former member of the #Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board, is the School's Alumnus of the Year! Learn more about Mave's lasting impact here: https://bit.ly/4oO0ND1

New publication on @molecularomics.rsc.org 🥳Our work revealed how osteoarthritis reshapes the neuropeptide landscape of the spinal cord in the MIRAT model. This is a nice collaboration with Prof. Eric Troncy Lab, and congrats to Gaoyuan, Marilyn and all co-authors 👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

PharmTox students Sophia Melnyk and Caroline Mork have been honored with @uwmadison.bsky.social Hillsdale Fellowships! Learn about how the Hilldale Fellowship is support students and mentors in their research on treating #Alzheimers and lung #cancer: https://bit.ly/4hGgppY

“#Cannabis policy in #Wisconsin is at an inflection point, and small nudges could push the state in different directions,” Professor Lucas Richert tells the Badger Herald. Learn more about the crossroads of medical #marijuanna in Wisconsin 🔽 badgerherald.com/news/science...

Congratulations to Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Arash Bashirullah, who’s been named dean of the @uh.edu College of #Pharmacy! We're proud of all he's accomplished in his 18 years at UW–Madison and wish him the best in his next chapter! www.uh.edu/news-events/...

The impact of the #Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center underscores the vital role of the community pharmacy in addressing the opioid epidemic. Please visit our website (woorc.pharmacy.wisc.edu) to learn more about WOORC and to donate to support our ongoing efforts.

In its first year, the #Wisconsin #Opioid Overdose Response Center has partnered with 70+ #pharmacies statewide to distribute educational materials & life-saving medications, @captimes.com reports, reaching 185,000+ people. captimes.com/uw-madison-c... @jhfordii.bsky.social @wenthurlab.bsky.social

After surviving leukemia, chemo & a heart transplant, alum Lizeth Garcia-Jennings turned her struggle into purpose as a clinical #pharmacy specialist: “Everything I went through has pushed me to make sure every patient feels heard.” Her inspiring story ▶️ https://bit.ly/4h33YE7

Alumnus Daniel Ricci is being honored with the School's 2025 IPPE #Preceptor Excellence Award! Inspired by the fantastic preceptors he had in #pharmacy school, Ricci mentors students in his day-to-day activities at Forward Pharmacy in Cambridge, Wisconsin. https://bit.ly/42H98jo

🏅🤝 "At his first AACP meeting as a faculty member in 1994, former Professor Joe Wiederholt, one of Zgarrick’s mentors, nominated him for a leadership role in the AACP Social and Administrative Sciences section."

Alumnus Dave Zgarrick is honored with the @aacpharmacy.bsky.social's 2025 Distinguished Service Award! The honor recognizes his expansive four-decade career as a leader in #academicpharmacy and the commitment shown during 12 years on the AACP Board of Directors. bit.ly/47IRL4r

Truly honored to collaborate with colleagues @sjbeckerphd.bsky.social, Andrew Quanbeck, Joe Glass, Hannah Knudsen, Heather Gotham, Mat Roosa, Emily Williams on this opinion piece honoring the research legacy of our friend and colleague - Bryan R Garner. www.frontiersin.org/journals/hea...

he School's PharmD students were well-represented at this year's American College of #ClinicalPharmacy (#ACCP2025) annual meeting! Future Badger pharmacists presented four posters sharing their original #pharmacy research. 🧵 (1/5)

Congratulations to Prof. Lingjun Li (@liresearch.bsky.social) on earning a @uwmadison.bsky.social Kellett Mid-Career Award to support her "high risk, high reward" work in single-cell analysis & #massspectrometry, geared to understand tumors & neuron communication! pharmacy.wisc.edu/2025/09/10/p...

Through a co-op at @regeneron.com, PharmSci grad student Gaoyuan Lu is using high-resolution #massspectrometry to characterize complex biomolecules such as peptides and proteins, which can help with #biomarker discovery and #drugquality control. Learn how: https://bit.ly/48VWoZR

The Payment Cure hopp.uwpress.org/content/66/2... #history #pharmacy Even today, a pharmacist might preserve filled prescriptions on the counter, stabbing the slips of paper through a peg. In doing so, they are participating in a tradition of recordkeeping that dates back to the early modern period.

After 40 years of practice, alum Sarah Lentz still follows a valuable lesson her mentors taught her: knowing when to say "I don't know—I'll find out." As one of the School's longest-serving #preceptors, she's been guiding student #pharmacists since 1986! https://bit.ly/4q7YkoC

A breath of fresh air: @uwmadpharmacy.bsky.social graduate student Sara Hernandez is leveraging pharmacist expertise to create a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management program for rural patients in Wisconsin.

From a Milwaukee basement to a veterinary #pharmacy success story: We're celebrating Patti & Jeff Langer with 2025 Citations of Merit! Since opening the Pet Apothecary in 1999, the Langers have treated everything from snakes to lizards to show pigs & cows. https://bit.ly/4qlMxCX

From patient care to national leadership, alum Mike Raschka has built a career on collaboration & curiosity. Now Children's Minnesota clinical pharmacy coordinator & residency director, he advances pediatric #pharmacy through #ACCP & mentors future #pharmacists. https://bit.ly/4957ZG7

The School of Pharmacy is launching a newly integrated course series that connects drug science to real-world patient care, giving #PharmD students a holistic understanding of how medications work and how they’re used in practice. #Pharmacotherapy #Pharmacology Learn more: https://bit.ly/4nQmt17

With provider status now in effect in Wisconsin, #pharmacists are getting recognized and reimbursed for the clinical care they’ve long provided. Learn how alum Abbi Linde, with the #Wisconsin #CPESN, is helping pharmacists put provider status into practice: https://bit.ly/4ojryPg #ProviderStatus

🚨 A new Journal of Clinical #Pharmacology study by the School's Sin Yin Lim uses physiologically based modeling to guide safer dosing of levetiracetam for newborns with #seizures, especially for preterm infants at higher risk of toxicity. https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcph.70037

“Our #preceptors are the bridges between classroom learning and real-world practice.” Each year, the School celebrates exceptional preceptors for #PharmD students on clinical rotations. This year, we honor Daniel Ricci, Nicholas Zetes & Jeremy Barnes! https://bit.ly/42H98jo

Cheers to #WomenPharmacistDay! We’re celebrating the women #pharmacists, and the colleagues who support them, who make a difference every day in the profession and in patient care.

“It’s a great opportunity and also potentially a foot in the door,” says Prof. Lara Collier. School of Pharmacy #PharmSci PhD students are gaining real-world experience through #internships & co-ops at top companies like Regeneron, Merck & Genentech: https://bit.ly/48VWoZR

🚨 A new study from Professor Lingjun Li @liresearch.bsky.social and collaborators in the Molecular Psychiatry journal finds that changes in an enzyme that helps #neurons function properly can alter synaptic function and drive #autism-like behaviors in a model. www.nature.com/articles/s41...