The official Twitter account of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

Iowa City, IA
Joined June 2010
PharmD students connected with community and health-system pharmacy reps at our fall employer tabling events: internships, residencies, jobs, and more. Get involved with our spring tabling events: bit.ly/UIPharmD-Employers
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Join us in congratulating faculty member @AliasgerSalem on his renewed five-year appointment! His work focuses on developing therapies for regenerative medicine, cancer, and other diseases.
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Professor Michael Ashley Spies is using a $2 million @NIH R35 grant to pioneer a framework for exploring secret pockets on enzyme proteins. The work aims to find new ways to fight disease by creating a roadmap on how to design better drugs. Learn about it: pharmacy.uiowa.edu/news/2026…
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Fourth-oldest in the country, one of the top-ranked PharmD programs in the nation: @UIPharmacy 💉
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Celebrating Women Pharmacist Day and the amazing contributions, leadership, and impact of women in the pharmacy profession! Zada Mary Cooper was a pioneer in the field. She graduated from the UI College of Pharmacy in 1897 and continued as a faculty member until retiring in 1942.
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Dean, Jean M. Schmidt Chair, and Professor Jill Kolesar was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors last week. Well-deserved! @deanjillkolesar @AcadofInventors
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Happy American Pharmacist Month! Checking blood pressures, providing vaccinations, creating naloxone kits. Our PharmD student pharmacists have been living the theme this fall: Caring for Our Communities! #APhM2026
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Congratulations to Dean, Jean M. Schmidt Chair, and Professor Jill Kolesar on receiving the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy Citation of Merit Award. @deanjillkolesar @UWMadPharmacy
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Alumna Rubi Burlage, now an associate vice president at @Merck, returned to campus as the keynote for the PSET Department’s fall research retreat. Congrats to all who presented!
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Thanks for rolling up a sleeve at Friday’s volleyball match for our Healthy Hawks: One Team, One Goal collaboration with UI Athletics and Towncrest Pharmacy. Next stop: the Iowa women’s basketball game, Nov. 2. @NACDSFoundation; @TheIowaHawkeyes
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Dean Jill Kolesar’s unique research to treat ovarian cancer has been cleared by the FDA for clinical trials. Read more, including which other UI researchers are involved: bit.ly/Ovarian-Cancer-Treatm… @IowaMed @uihealthcare @ARPA_H @AmericanCancer
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Where Iowa student pharmacists are learning this year. 5 APPEs in 4 countries. #WPD2026
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Cheering on the Hawkeye volleyball team tomorrow night? Get a flu shot while you’re at it. Our PharmD students are offering vaccines to ticket holders. Win-win! Find tickets at hawkeyesports.com/tickets. @TheIowaHawkeyes
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Announcing our 2025-26 Preceptor Excellence Award recipients. Congrats! Learn what students had to say at bit.ly/4y9hVIh. @VAIowaCity @uihealthcare
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Chin Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Nicole K. Brogden, PharmD, PhD has been appointed to the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Advisory Board. Congratulations!
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The Iowa Board of Regents this week approved the new Institute for Cancer Drug Discovery and Development (CANDID) at the College of Pharmacy to speed new treatments toward patients. Read more bit.ly/CANDID-Approved
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PharmD student Kelsey Rook was at work when someone needed help. Thanks to her IA-NEXT opioid overdose id and naloxone training she kept the person alive. Read Kelsey's story pharmacy.uiowa.edu/news/2026…
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September is moving fast! Don't miss out on our tailgate before the Hawkeyes face the Buckeyes. Meet up with alumni and friends. NEW: You can also get your flu vaccine there. Register today: bit.ly/Pharm-OSU-Tailgate
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Professor Mary Schroeder is our new DEO for Pharmacy Practice and Science. Congrats! A health economist focused on cancer care access, she's been with the college for 15 years. Learn about her leadership philosophy and priorities for the first year at bit.ly/4xXniKU.
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Alumna Janet Moylan Ritter, '92 BSPh, '94 PharmD, was inducted into the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday. Congrats! She was a three-time All-Big Ten volleyball setter who also earned Academic All-Big Ten honors as a pharmacy student. bit.ly/4gKhhLq
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