January 8, 2009
Best of 2008: School of Pharmacy
The School of Pharmacy was ranked No. 5 in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/pha/search
John Hoekman, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Pharmacy, co-developed a novel direct-to-brain drug-delivery technology that could revolutionize treatment options for people with central nervous system diseases. It has already helped him win a business-plan competition, gain the attention of venture capitalists, launch a startup and land on a list of Seattle’s top innovators and entrepreneurs: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/08/29/impel-neuropharma-develops-novel-delivery-system-to-get-drugs-into-the-brain/
http://seattlebusinessmonthly.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=3E1DA341B2834604B64A1EB3BA74CCFB&tier=4&id=C078B370210F4742821D666602262407&AudID (Scroll to the biotechnology section at the end.)
The School of Pharmacy ranks No. 3 in National Institutes of Health-supported research funding awarded to individual researchers at a school of pharmacy, according to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy:
http://www.aacp.org/Docs/MainNavigation/NewsRoom/8829_magazine-online.pdf (Page 15)
Dr. Danny Shen was named president-elect of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. AAPS is a nonprofit educational, scientific and scholarly organization with more than 13,000 members representing academia and industry. Shen, chair of the school’s Department of Pharmacy and a professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutics, is the first UW faculty member to receive this distinction: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=43991
