Jeremy Johnson, PharmD, PhD

Jeremy Johnson, PharmD, PhD, is Professor and Associate Head for Research of Pharmacy Practice at the Retzky College of Pharmacy at UIC, as well as the Technology Lead of Pharmacokinetics at UICentre, the campuswide drug discovery enterprise at UIC. At UIC since 2010, his Plant Medicine Lab focuses on a combination of preclinical and clinical research, where they actively isolate phytochemicals from plants and evaluate activity in cell free and cell-based models, along with models to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of investigational agents. Since 2007, his research has been continuously funded with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the American Cancer Society and other nonprofit organizations. He was also awarded a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his work on the mangosteen fruit and cancer.

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