Pfizer and Moderna announced in recent days that they have vaccine candidates that are over 90 per cent effective in preventing the COVID-19 virus.
Elisa Basile’s work term was altered by COVID-19 but led to unique experiences in two workplaces. The above shows Elisa and her preceptor Adam Livingston, the Designated Manager at NutriChem. They are in a section of NutriChem's compounding laboratory, a non-sterile negative pressure room where the hormones and other hazardous agents are compounded.
In January 2021, two faculty members will be stepping into leadership roles for the Waterloo Pharmacy graduate program.
Since 2016, Christine and David Edwards have sponsored the Christine and David Edwards Travel Award for Graduate Students. As a result, 19 pharmacy graduate students have attended 24 conferences across Canada and the world over the last five years.
This weekend, Waterloo Pharmacy celebrated the graduation of Rx2020 with a virtual convocation reception. The reception followed the Faculty of Science’s virtual convocation.
Back in April, Svetlana Litchmanova was watching the news about COVID carefully. The pharmacy student was slated to start work in Alberta in May, at Lemarchand Dispensary Pharmacy and Compounding Lab. With travel restrictions being introduced, she wasn’t sure if she would go.
“I felt recording videos of myself performing searches on the library website and in the various research databases would be unengaging for students,” Caitlin Carter says.
Chelsea Kwong in the pharmacy. With COVID-19 testing rolling out in Ontario pharmacies, Chelsea and Melanie Sanderson, alumni in Alberta, share how the experience has gone in their province.
Svetlana Litchmanova on co-op in a pharmacy. Waterloo Pharmacy co-op students, employers and staff collaborated to achieve 100% co-op employment for pharmacy students throughout 2020.