ACPHS In The News

ACPHS’ annual faculty/staff retreat on Aug. 14 focused on adapting to change, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Barbara Trautlein of Change Catalysts. Following a pre-retreat assessment, faculty and staff explored change styles rooted in head, hands or heart – and what their own style meant for their contributions to changes occurring on campus

If you took the wide-angle view of campus in the summer, you’d see a quieter place moving at a slower pace.  But if you knew where to focus your gaze any particular week, you’d see the activity never stopped. Summer 2024 featured training for students of all ages – from middle-school students learning how to make medicine to well-established professionals learning how to market their medical innovations

With the incredible growth of the academic portfolio over the past 10 months, the College made investments in faculty who could teach these new programs to transferring Saint Rose students, as well as helping the College grow these programs to myriad prospective students

Incoming Panthers got acquainted with campus and each other on July 26, 2024 as ACPHS held its Kick Start event in advance of the upcoming academic year.

Joy Mwangangye attends college and works as a high school teaching assistant in the Boston area. But it took a trip to Albany to see inside the wonders of multinational pharmaceutical companies. Indeed, a Boston-based Takeda facility was Mwangangye’s favorite stop in the NIIMBL eXperience, a weeklong exploration of the biopharmaceutical industry hosted by ACPHS’ Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET) from June 3-7

Pharmacy residents and fellows were feted at a graduation luncheon at the Hilton Garden Inn on June 5, celebrating the completion of prestigious post-graduate programs at ACPHS and other institutions.   Residencies and fellowships are considered career accelerators, sometimes said to be worth three to five years of work experience

Former emergency room nurse Hilario Castillo, who has patented a two-needle syringe to make administration of injections safer and faster, has been traveling from his home in Westchester County to Albany on Thursday evenings to learn how to get his device to market

Toby, a one-year-old New York City-based diagnostic startup named after Sherlock Holmes’ canine tracker, is at a critical juncture. Toby co-founder Matthew Laskowski is hopeful the fledgling firm is climbing out of what he referred to as the “valley of death” – the torturous loop where a biotech startup needs more funds to gather clinical data, but venture capitalists want the clinical data before they invest more funds

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences’ Collaboratory, serving Albany’s South End community to improve population health, has been named the June 2024 beneficiary for Hannaford’s reusable bag program. ACPHS’ Collaboratory will receive $1 from the purchase of every $2

When Kaylee Stewart ’24 was looking for a job she could do after graduation, she had a checklist in her head:   __ Stay in the Albany area (see the next item)   __ Be able to continue working on research with Associate Professor Dr