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VCU's Department of Pharmaceutics specializes in the science and technology associated with innovations in drug delivery.
NEWS
PCEU Combined Degree Student Awarded Dissertation Year Award
David S. Lee, PharmD, PhD candidate, received the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Dissertation Year Award. The SREB is part of a nationwide initiative, The Compact for Faculty Diversity, to produce more minority PhD's and to encourage them to seek faculty positions. The Dissertation Year Award will include a one-year package of direct program support (one year of tuition and fees, a $15,000 stipend, a $500 research allowance) and expenses associated with attending the Compact for Faculty Diversity's Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Congratulations, David!
VCU-AAPS Student Chapter
Receives PPDM Education Travelship Funding
The Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Metabolism (PPDM) Education Initiative, supported by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), awarded the Department of Pharmaceutics' VCU-AAPS Student Chapter with a $1000 travelship to be used toward travel and lodging expenses in support of hosting an invited speaker/visiting scientist. Stay tuned for more information on the invited speaker/visiting scientist itinerary in 2008.
Congratulations May 2008 Graduates
Satjit Brar waves farwell
On Saturday, May 17, 2008, the Department of Pharmaceutics awarded degrees to the following students:
Satjit S. Brar, PharmD, PhD
Dissertation Advisor: Jurgen Venitz, MD, PhD
Don E. Farthing, PhD
Dissertation Advisor: H. Thomas Karnes, PhD
Reshma M. Kotian, PhD
Dissertation Advisor: Joanne Peart, PhD
Michael C. Peoples, PhD
Dissertation Advisor: H. Thomas Karnes, PhD
Pharmaceutics Welcomes New Faculty Member
 Please welcome the newest faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Dr. Douglas H. Sweet. Dr. Sweet joined the Department on April 1, 2008. Prior to his appointment at VCU, Dr. Sweet was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Dr. Sweet obtained a PhD in Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His major field of research is in Comparative Physiology and Toxicology of Epithelial Transport.
Respiratory Drug Delivery 2008
 Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) 2008, organized by the Aerosol Research Group, will be held May 11-15, 2008 at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ. More than 700 conference attendees from academia, government and the pharmaceutical industry are expected to attend. Conference attendees, including 150 scientific poster presenters and 75 suppliers, will gather to exchange the latest in aerosol drug delivery developments.
The meeting format will include
In-depth discussions of developing issues surrounding aerosol drug delivery Scientific Poster Session and Technology Exhibit in which device equipment designers and suppliers will present their latest developments alongside scientific poster presenters The Charles G. Thiel Award endowed by 3M Drug Delivery Systems at VCU School of Pharmacy will be presented in recognition of outstanding research and discovery in respiratory drug delivery
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