William Jusko Receives Volwiler Award

By Mary Cochrane

Release Date: July 19, 2005 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected William J. Jusko, Ph.D., as this year's recipient of its Volwiler Research Achievement Award.

Considered the AACP's premier research award, the honor recognizes outstanding research conducted by a pharmaceutical scientist/educator. The award is named in memory of Ernest H. Volwiler, the former president and research director of Abbott Laboratories, which sponsors the award. The AACP board of directors presented the award this month at its annual meeting in Cincinnati.

Jusko is professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has been a faculty member at UB since 1972 and has numerous publications that examine the factors and mechanisms that alter the disposition and effects of diverse drugs. His research emphasizes the development of new mathematical principles and methods for characterizing the in vivo behavior of drugs.

Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Jusko received a bachelor's of science degree in pharmacy in 1965 and a doctoral degree in 1970 from UB. He joined the clinical pharmacology section of the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital and was assistant professor of pharmacology at Boston University School of Medicine. He returned to UB as an assistant professor and director of the clinical pharmacokinetics laboratory.

A Fulbright scholar at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacology in Italy from 1978-79, he has received numerous awards for his research and service. He has published nearly 500 articles, book chapters and reviews. He is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of six journals. He is named in the Information Sciences Institute's Most Highly Cited List in Pharmacology.

Jusko is a resident of East Amherst.