pharmacy

‘Celebration of Life’ honors late diabetes, pharmacy leader Keith Campbell

By Kelly Sylvester, WSU College of Pharmacy SPOKANE, Wash. – Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and the family of Keith Campbell announced plans for a “Celebration of Life” to honor the late Professor Emeritus R. Keith Campbell, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, in Spokane.

March 13: White Lecture features national institute researcher

By Lori Maricle, WSU College of Pharmacy  SPOKANE, Wash. – Richard Okita, a program director with the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will present the 2018 Allen I. White Lecture at noon Tuesday, March 13, in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building Walgreens Auditorium on the WSU Spokane campus.

WSU researchers deliver first “nanotherapeutics” to tumor

By Eric Sorensen, WSU News SPOKANE, Wash. – For the first time, WSU researchers have demonstrated a way to deliver a drug to a tumor by attaching it to a blood cell. The innovation could let doctors target tumors with anticancer drugs that might otherwise damage healthy tissues.

WSU Spokane students win state community service awards

SPOKANE, Wash. – Pharmacy students involved in organizing mumps vaccination clinics in Spokane as well as two students in the Nutrition and Exercise Physiology program will receive community service awards Friday from the Washington state chapter of a national organization that promotes community service from higher education students and employees.

WSU, Albertsons create first U.S. program allowing pharmacy technicians to administer immunizations

SPOKANE, Wash. — A pilot program in Idaho, hosted by Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Albertsons Companies, has led to the first law to expand patient access to health care services through immunization training for pharmacy technicians.

Pharmacy Ph.D. student wins Three Minute Thesis contest

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Panshak Dakup, a College of Pharmacy doctoral student at Washington State University Spokane, won the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) event in Pullman Tuesday with his presentation, “The Benefits of Circadian Function in Cancer Therapy.”

New course prepares students for personalized medicine

By Lori Maricle, College of Pharmacy SPOKANE, Wash. – Using a patients’ individual genetic information to select drugs and drug dosages specifically effective for them is part of pharmacy’s future. A recent study of a new course in pharmacogenomics at Washington State University Spokane found the class expanded students’ understanding of these possibilities for their […]