Happy International Women’s Day 2023!
The Pitt Pharmacy Center for Pharmacogenetics hosted a celebratory breakfast for all the amazing women in the Center!
#EmbraceEquity
Simone talked about her career journey at the AAPS Nanotechnology Career Series
Rotation Student Ben is joining the Brixius lab!
We welcome our new rotation student Ben Wang to the Brixius lab!
Ben did his BS and MS at UCSD and is now a first year grad student in the Molecular Biophysics & Structural Biology program. He will be working on some drug discovery and X-ray crystallography of ancestral P450s.
Simone will chair the 80th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference 2023
Simone will chair the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference 2023 for its 80th anniversary!
The Pittsburgh Diffraction Society is the oldest crystallographic society in North America with a long standing tradition.
We will have an amazing scientific program with some fun social activities! Stay tuned for updates on registration! Feel free to spread the word and share!
Welcome, Na Yoon!
A very warm welcome to Na Yoon Kang who joined the Brixius lab as student research assistant! Na Yoon is a P1 PharmD candidate and will have a mentored research experience in the Brixius lab where she will learn biochemical techniques for lung cancer drug discovery. She is all set with Brixius lab swag! 🙂
Simone wins AACP New Investigator Award!
The New Investigator Award of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy supports early career faculty to gather preliminary data for major government funding. The award will support our research on fatty acid metabolism in lung cancer. Team P450 for the win!
The Brixius lab co-authored first manuscript!
In collaboration with Leading Edge Symposium Fellows, we published an opinion piece about recruiting women faculty. We describe obstacles during the application process and provide a toolkit for hiring entities to make this process more inclusive for women caregivers.
San Martin, R., Moffitt, A., Loveless, T., Brixius-Anderko, S.* (2022) Recruiting Women Faculty through Inclusive, Family-Friendly Practices. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, accepted (*Corresponding author)
Simone joins the Molecular Biophysics & Structural Biology Graduate program as training faculty!
More information about the program can be found here: https://www.mbsb.pitt.edu/
2022
Happy Holidays from the Brixius Lab!
Huiting gave her first talk about our research!
1st year grad student Huiting gave her very first talk about our #P450 lung cancer project today! She did an amazing job!
The 79th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference
Simone gave a talk at the 79th PDC at Argonne Lightsource. The Pittsburgh Diffraction Society is the oldest North American crystallographic society.
Simone is the new president-elect of the Society and will host the conference for its 80th Anniversary in Pittsburgh in 2023!
Happy Postdoc Appreciation week to our postdoc Sutapa!
Simone was invited to give a talk at ICCP450 2022
Simone was invited to give a talk at the International Conference on Cytochrome P450 2022 in Washington D.C. The conference has a long-standing tradition and many P450 research pioneers like Dr. Richard Auchus and Dr. Fred Guengerich were attending. Science Wonderland!
Postdoc Sutapa joins the Brixius Lab!
A very warm welcome to the first Brixius lab postdoc Sutapa! She is a big P450 enthusiast & trained with P450 legend Allan Rettie at UW Pharmacy. We are so happy having her and celebrated with Oreo Mega Cake. Yummie!
Grad Student Huiting joins the Brixius Lab!
We are so happy to welcome our first grad student Huiting today! She got her MS from USC and is so excited to learn P450 x-ray crystallography!
We had a great Pizza & Sticker party to officially welcome her and postdoc Sutapa to the Center of Pharmacogenetics!
Simone was invited to give a talk for the ASPET webinar!
Simone gave a seminar talk at the ASPET Focus on Pharmacology Meeting: Current Advances in Drug Metabolism Virtual Series Part 3 (2022).
PharmD student Rachel is joining the Brixius lab!
PharmD candidate Rachel is joining the Brixius lab as a student research assistant! We are excited to work with her!
The Brixius Lab is finally set-up!
We are a fully functional lab after months of waiting for equipment! Thanks to our lab manager Bjoern!
The Brixius Lab 