Topics and Expertise: pharmacology

Research points to individualized treatments for curing TB

Tue Nov 20, 2018
Savic speaking at podium

Rada Savic, PhD, senior author on the study, presented her team's work on tuberculosis treatments at the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health in The Hague, The Netherlands, in late October 2018.

Tuberculosis is usually treated with a six month regimen of daily antibiotics, but millions of patients do not recover from the disease during treatment. Rada Savic’s team showed that adjusting the duration of this regimen based on disease severity could lead to better outcomes.

Benet honored for lifetime accomplishments in drug clearance research and discovery

Thu Apr 29, 2010
For his historic contributions to what is now known about the rate at which drugs are broken down and "cleared" from the body, Leslie Benet, PhD, was honored by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) with the Oscar B