The School of Pharmacy was ranked No. 5 in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report:
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:
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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:
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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 91探花faculty member to receive this distinction: