Waterloo Pharmacy alum Dr. Danielle Paes (Rx2014) joins the ranks of remarkable and inspiring women across Canada in the WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, Professionals category.
Dr. Andrea Edginton, University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy hallman director and professor, joins the ranks of remarkable and inspiring women across Canada in the WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, Executive Leaders category.
Dr. Nyasha Gondora (PhD ’20) has been honored with the prestigious Canada's 2024 Top 100 Black Women to Watch Award for her outstanding contributions. Moving from Zimbabwe to Texas to Kitchener-Waterloo, Gondora’s journey instilled in her courage, adaptability and a deep appreciation for community.
Denise Kreutzwiser is the 2023 University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy Alumni Achievement Award recipient. Read more about her journey from farm to pharm.
Lisa Walsh, anatomy and physiology course lab instructor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, was unanimously voted for the 2024 Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award in recognition of her student-focused approach to instruction.
Waterloo Pharmacy students and co-founders of MyPharmacist, Brian Hui, Aram Mohammadi and Musab Iqbal win Velocity pitch competition.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced funding for the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-2024. Waterloo Pharmacy alum and current postdoctoral fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Dr. Cindy Hoi Ting Yeung (PhD’23, Dr. Andrea Edginton’s Lab) was ranked 13 out of the 182 researchers for her work on Advancing towards model-informed precision dosing: Ontogeny and pharmacogenetics of commonly used drugs in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Nicholas Cheng, Waterloo Pharmacy MSc student didn’t expect his side project, Entomatia, to launch another side project – repurposing the discarded insect shells for consumer detection of lead in water at home.
The 2023 CPJ Best Paper Award went to Waterloo Pharmacy researchers Sherilyn Houle, Wasem Alsabbagh and Nancy Waite who found a solution to assist the public and pharmacists in encouraging vaccination uptake in their study, Herpes zoster and human papillomavirus vaccination opportunities identified using electronic prompts at the time of scheduling influenza or COVID-19 vaccines.
Professor Nancy Waite awarded 2022-23 Everyday Hero Minister's Award of Excellence from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.