UConn School of Pharmacy Calendar

Seminar Title: “Technological Advancements for Accelerated Development of Effective nanomedicines”
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 from 3:30 – 4:30 – WebEx
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m2ca90e4e108d1a3457daee935c39904b

Dr. Christine Allen is the Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto and a full professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. She is the CEO and Scientific Director of the Nanomedicines Innovation Network, a National Centre of Excellence funded by the Government of Canada. Her research focuses on the design of innovative materials and drug delivery technologies with over 150 publications in this area. She is the co-founder and served as President of Nanovista Inc., a company focused on high-precision, image-guided cancer therapy. Professor Allen is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Controlled Release Society (CRS) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release, the President-Elect of the CRS and an appointed member of the Governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Wellness Committee is hosting a workshop on test taking anxiety presented by Dr. Nigro!

The workshop will be in person on Thursday, February 3rd in PBB 129 starting at 4:30PM.

We would like to remind everyone that masking is required, and bringing a computer or other electronic device to the workshop is recommended (part of the event will be interactive!).



If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email Molly Csere at molly.csere@uconn.edu or Jackson Calhoun at jackson.calhoun@uconn.edu.

Adam Martin, Ph.D.,
Department of Biology,
MIT
Cambridge, MA

Talk title: ‘Folding tissues across length scales: cell-based origami’

Host: Dr. Jianjun Sun

Nicolas Tritsch,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology,
NYU,
New York, NY

Talk Title:

“What neuromodulatory soup? Long-range inputs coordinate oscillations in striatal acetylcholine and dopamine”

Host:
Dr. Alexander Jackson

Save the date for the UConn School of Pharmacy's Fall 2022 Professionalism Events. (P1, P2, P3 classes)