Grant Highlights

School of Pharmacy faculty members from all three departments received stimulus funding, through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, totaling more than $3.75 million. Recipients were: medicinal chemistry faculty members Dave Goodlett and Allan Rettie; pharmaceutics faculty members Shiu-Lok Hu, Nina Isoherranen, Jashvant Unadkat, Ken Thummel and Joanne Wang; and pharmacy faculty members Mary Hebert, Sean Sullivan and Dave Veenstra.

Gail Anderson

Professor of Pharmacy Gail Anderson received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled "Pharmacological optimization of poly-drug therapy in traumatic brain injury.” The five-year grant totals almost $3.3 million.  

Professor of Pharmaceutics Shiu-Lok Hu is collaborating with the University of Massachusetts and New York University on a $10 million grant funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases HIV Vaccine Research and Design grant program. The project, "Induction of neutralizing antibodies targeting CD4-binding region of HIV-1 Env," will assess a vaccine designed to prevent HIV infection. More…

Sean Sullivan, professor of pharmacy and director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP), was among four principal investigators named on a $4 million grant recently awarded to the UW through the federal stimulus package. Sullivan and his team from PORPP will work with other scientists from the UW, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Group Health Research Institute to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of cancer diagnostics. More…

Jashvant Unadkat

Jashvant Unadkat, professor of pharmaceutics, received grant awards from Simcyp and Pfizer Inc. to support basic research on pharmacokinetic modeling and transporter biology.