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Program offers health care professionals free education on pharmacogenomics (PGx).

Will replace current Dean Lynda Welage effective Sept. 4, 2024

When the Medical Laboratory Sciences faculty first considered the application of a student who had a service dog, the idea of inviting a dog into the lab felt foreign. To their knowledge, there was no precedent for a service dog in a health science teaching lab. But by the next faculty meeting, everyone was prepared to make it happen. 

Provost Unit Service Award recognizes work that has strengthened function and climate of the recipient’s unit.

Dr. Tim Stratton recently published research evaluating the college’s elective course on rural pharmacy practice.

Welage will remain on faculty with the college.

Both department members were selected by the College of Pharmacy's PharmD cohorts for their exemplary teaching skills.

A successful first-in-human clinical study of YCT-529, a hormone-free birth control pill for men developed by Dr. Gunda Georg of the College of Pharmacy and YourChoice Therapeutics, demonstrated its safety.

Pharmacy advocates had a successful session at the Minnesota State Legislature this year, passing four of five Minnesota Pharmacy Alliance (MPA) priorities. Those priorities were passed through a massive omnibus bill (HF5247), which compiled provisions from the Tax Conference Committee and several other omnibus policy bills. It was approved and signed by Governor Tim Walz on May 24.