News & Publications – Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences

May 14, 2026

Awards

PhD students awarded Certification in Clinical and Translational Science

Congratulations to Shambhavi Parab, Avantika Gupta, and Yuqian Zhao for receiving the Certificate in Clinical and Translational Science for Graduate...

May 1, 2026

Publication

Treprostinil minimizes ischemia-reperfusion injury of liver after circulatory death donation-evidence using normothermic machine perfusion

Yermek N, Shambhavi P, Gupta A, Shaik IH, Randhawa P, Humar A, Venkataramanan R, Hughes CB.

Transplantation. 2026 May 1. DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005736. PMID: 42062820

April 23, 2026

News

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Deppas on his successful PhD defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Deppas (Pitt Pharmacy MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences 2020) on successfully defending his PhD research “Exposure-Response Relationships...

March 28, 2026

Presentation

Students present at annual PSRS at West Virginia University

Pitt Pharmacy graduate students from Dr. Kerry Empey’s lab (photo on right) presented their research posters on Saturday at the...

March 26, 2026

News

Congratulations to Dr. An Le on his successful PhD defense!

Congratulations to An Le on successfully defending his dissertation, “Understanding Biological Factors Affecting Drug Distribution in Mucosal Tissue Using in...

March 23, 2026

Publication

Contemporary antiretroviral pharmacology in the male genital tract: implications for HIV treatment and prevention

Neverette NC, Winfield J, Chaparro-Cáceres N, Ho KS, Dumond JB, Devanathan AS.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2026 May 6;70(5):e0140125. DOI: 10.1128/aac.01401-25. PMID: 41870063. Epub 2026 Mar 23.

February 20, 2026

Publication

Pharmacokinetics and preliminary data on safety of meloxicam subcutaneous extended-release formulation in Sprague-Dawley rats

Gupta A, Akkaraju H, Vasudevan V, Turaga S, Rohan LC, Patel SK, Levinson B, Leary S, Witham S, Shaik IH, Venkataramanan R.

Front Vet Sci. 2026 Feb 20;13:1686805. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2026.1686805. PMID: 41800314.

January 31, 2026

Publication

ABCD-GENE score and bleeding in post-PCI patients: Implications for guided de-escalation of antiplatelet therapy

Coons JC, Polkowski K, Prebehalla L, Smith AC, Empey PE.

J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2026 Jan-Dec;31:10742484261457268. doi: 10.1177/10742484261457268. Epub 2026 Jun 2. PMID: 42227816.

January 10, 2026

Publication

Automated extraction of fluoropyrimidine treatment and treatment-related toxicities from clinical notes using natural language processing

Wu X, Kreider MS, Empey PE, Li C, Wang Y.

Int J Med Inform. 2026 Jan 10;209:106276. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2026.106276. PMID: 41534241.

November 22, 2025

Presentation

Students present scientific posters and give podium presentations at the Autumn Immunology Conference in Chicago

Three students in Dr. Kerry Empey’s lab presented research at the Vaccine Immunology session at the 53rd Autumn Immunology Conference....

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