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Breakthroughs Can’t Wait: The Next Generation of Researchers Makes an Impact

UMB researchers are tackling real-world challenges and making a lasting impact on lives everywhere.

Amy Kruger Howard, PharmD ’17, MS ’21 (left), and Jill Morgan, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, FNAP.

Good Taste: Pharmacists Develop List to Help Kids Take and Tolerate Their Medicine

The Ew Meds List is a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the worst-tasting liquid medicines, along with proven strategies to make them taste better.

Scratching Out Solutions: School of Medicine’s Maryland Itch Center Brings Relief to Patients

The center welcomes patients from across the nation and the world seeking relief from chronic, unexplained itch as well as itch associated with inflammatory skin diseases.

A School of Medicine study has found using real-time smartphone-based assessments can help to determine the effectiveness of sleep medications.

Wake-Up Call: Improving Sleep Isn’t Enough as Researchers Highlight Daytime Function as Key to Assessing Insomnia Treatments

The School of Medicine study sought to determine how well treatments improve daytime functioning.

School of Dentistry DDS student Jeremie Oliver Piña, PhD, MBA, MS, presents at the School of Pharmacy HiPitch competition.

‘In a Tier of His Own’: 2026 UMSOD Graduate Studies Gene Therapies to Prevent and Treat Cleft Lip

Jeremie Oliver Piña foresees a future for himself as “a surgeon innovator” specializing in cleft care and prevention.

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