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Researchers have designed a device that delivers two medications that help stop HIV transmission.

Although condom usage is the best strategy for preventing HIV transmission, the researchers are working to design a device that can be used by sex workers and in situations where women are not in a position to negotiate condom use.

The Grand River Hospital (GRH) clinic was Waterloo Region’s first vaccine clinic. Alumnus Daniel Pereira (Rx2015, right) has been there since day one, overseeing the pharmacy team and their processes to ensure the clinic runs smoothly.

Professors Aravindhan Ganesan (Pharmacy, left) and Subha Kalyaanamoorthy (Chemistry, right) use drug design methods to target the molecular machinery that supports COVID-19 replication.

The pandemic has increased older adults’ willingness to receive the flu shot, new research shows. 

To be a professor during the pandemic has been challenging. Adapting content to online learning spaces demands time, dedication, and creative exploration of new ways to keep online learners engaged. This year’s recipient of the Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award demonstrates this commitment to learners.

Volunteers working alongside nurses, doctors, pharmacists, students, and staff are the secret to the success of the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) vaccine clinic. This week the clinic reached the 25,000 doses milestone, but there is still work to do. Many volunteers are long-time residents who appreciate and value the KW community. Collectively, they are committed to helping stamp out this pandemic.

In Canada, cannabis became legal to produce, distribute, purchase and use non-medicinally for adults on October 17, 2018. Though Canada is only the second country in the world to adopt this legalization, other countries have also implemented more lax cannabis laws in recent years.

In April, 150 students from across North America and beyond logged on for HackRx, a three-day hackathon organized by about fifteen University of Waterloo and University of Toronto pharmacy students.

Angie Puim (Rx2011) and her sister Gina DiVizo (Rx2013) are Waterloo Pharmacy alumni and co-owners of Preston Medical Pharmacy in Cambridge. The pharmacy was founded by their father thirty-five years ago.

At Preston, they’ve built a partnership with Community Living Cambridge, an organization that supports people with development disabilities.

“We’ve provided medications for the Community Living Cambridge residences for the past thirty years,” Angie says. “In April, when it came time to vaccinate their residents and caregivers, they called us to help out.”

2021 marks 10 years since OPSIS was founded. Left: participants in the first OPSIS conference in 2011. Organizers for that conference included Kaitlin Bynkoski and Robyn MacArthur who are current staff and faculty for the School. Right: Participants in OPSIS 2021.