Attention UIowa Summer Undergrad Researchers: On June 18th at 1:30pm in C44-A General Hospital, the undergraduate B.E.S.T. Researcher summer program will hold a panel discussion with myself, Ned Bowden, and Sarah Sapouckey on intellectual property and starting a company.

Just published: Cyclodextrin-Based Inclusion Complexes Improve the In Vitro Solubility and Pharmacokinetics of Ivacaftor Following Oral Administration in Mice. Nakhla et al. Link to article: rdcu.be/emoRw

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | @aapscomms National Biotechnology Conference in Boston #NBC2025 has started. The opening talk is from Dr. Nikhil Munshi, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and Director at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

I’m delighted to share that our company S5G Therapeutics won the $50,000 first prize tonight in this year’s JPEC Innovation Challenge! We look forward to moving our therapy for surface ocular diseases into the clinic as our planned next steps.

The National Academy of Inventors has ranked the University of Iowa in the top 100 U.S. Universities granted U.S. utility patents through procurement of United States patents to protect the intellectual property of their accomplishments in innovation and invention.

The annual 2025 Society For Biomaterials meeting has been excellent. Mohammad Alnatour, Esraa Mohamed, Apurva Dusane, Ramkrishna Sen and Adam Salem all gave outstanding presentations. #SFB2025

My visit to Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy today was excellent. The visit was also an excellent opportunity for our new $13 million VCU-Iowa program project team (including Drs Sarkar and Fisher) focused on treating liver cancer to connect and plan next steps.

Im looking forward to presenting my research at VCU School of Pharmacy this Friday, (03/28). My favorite invitations to speak are consistently the ones that come from the students and I'm grateful to the AAPS VCU student chapter for planning the visit.

The University Lecture Committee organized an event: “An evening with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Art of Cancer Research” on March 4th. He read from his book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” and shared his thoughts on the current state of cancer research.

I am pleased to share that myself, Mark Greiner (University of Iowa) and Sara Thomasy (UC Davis) have been awarded a new National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) R01 grant for $2.85 million focused on "Modulating Ferroptosis in Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy".

Indirect costs are how the government supports research infrastructure for the nation and are critical to all research activities. They cover real expenses, including buildings and labs, equipment, and staff who support our research. The figure below shows what indirects cover

Dr. Michael Wendt will be presenting his research on "Targeting Cellular Plasticity in Metastatic Breast Cancer" at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy on Jan 14th 2024.

Season’s greetings and happy holidays from the Salem Research group at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy

The University of Iowa was pleased to welcome the NASA Ames group to campus to discuss new collaborations and growing our partnership as we move forward.