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Nancy Finch Thompson’s life was one of service: to her family, to her church, and to the profession of pharmacy.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPPS) is proud to announce the recipients of its 2021 alumni awards. 

The University at Buffalo chapter of Lambda Kappa Sigma (LKS) created homemade Valentine's Day cards for pediatric patients at Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo, NY.

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences recently received a major gift as part of the Boldly Buffalo campaign from alumna and South Buffalo native Margie Hempling McGlynn to create the Margaret Hempling McGlynn Endowed Chair in Clinical Pharmacy.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Keuka College and the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have formed a new collaborative agreement providing students the opportunity to earn a doctor of pharmacy degree.

The two vaccines currently being administered for SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) in the United States, developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, contain messenger RNA (mRNA) as their key component. They are the first mRNA vaccines to be FDA-approved.

An article in The Buffalo News explored how health care workers are weighing what's known about the COVID-19 vaccines, the effects of the virus and their sense of social responsibility in deciding whether to get vaccinated.

The University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute has awarded 13 new grants to support innovative translational research projects in Western New York, two of which support School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences faculty members David Jacobs, PharmD, PhD, Christopher Daly, PharmD, MBA, and Robert Straubinger, PhD.

Recently, a news station told the story of a woman without her medications from a mail order pharmacy. Besides the congestion of delivery services due to Covid-19 there is the issue of maintaining controlled temperature. Western New York has temperatures from extreme cold (-4) to very hot (98). Patients with metal mail boxes are very susceptible to medications spoiling at temperatures outside of recommended storage conditions.

The National Prohibition Act of 1919 included an exemption that allowed doctors to prescribe alcohol to patients, and pharmacists to dispense it. The only other exemption was the use of alcohol for religious sacraments.

Joseph P. Balthasar, BS '91, PhD '96, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is a world-renowned researcher working toward life-changing treatments for cancer, COVID-19 and other diseases. He is a “brilliant” researcher who has changed the field of protein therapeutics, according to James M. O’Donnell, PhD, professor and dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“Montefiore is the largest site for UB residents outside of Buffalo,” says Mark Sinnett, PharmD '87, BS '83, a health system pharmacist at the comprehensive, Bronx-based medical center he has called his professional home for 32 years. “That’s a real joy of mine.”

In 2007, Kathryn (Jones) Seelman was a second-year PharmD student with a vision for her future.