Announcements

Faculty, staff and students from the College of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacy Education and Innovation presented at The Ohio State University’s 2025 Assessment Conference on Sept. 26 at the Blackwell Inn. The theme of this year’s conference was “The Future Is Now: Assessment in the Age of Technology.”

The Lantern

Members of the Division of Pharmaceutics & Pharmacology attended the annual meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP).

Korydwen Terrasson, Ermias Mekuria Addo, Manead KhinTran Ngoc Ninh, Pankaj Pandey, Amar G. Chittiboyina, Daneel Ferreira, Harinantenaina L. Rakotondraibe, Joanna E. Burdette, Djaja D. Soejarto, A. Douglas Kinghorn

The Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy kicked off its upcoming year with an end-of-summer picnic.

Alex C. Varkey, PharmD, MS '07, FAPhA, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Clifton J. Latiolais Leadership Award, an honor recognizing outstanding leadership and contributions to institutional pharmacy practice, education, administration, and research.

Drug Topics

Bi-annual building safety reminders.

The revised 2025 PPCP was announced this week and reflects contemporary pharmacy practice and evolving trends in health care.

As Binzel explained, “It’s an overall astonishing fact that [around] 90 percent of our DNA actually has viral origins. Over time and through evolution, we’ve been infected with viruses, and they incorporate into our genome, and it’s who we are now. But the mRNA itself is completely incapable of changing your DNA. It’d be like trying to throw a rock up over Hoover Dam and changing the dam reservoir makeup itself.”