PROFESSOR EMERITUS
University of Washington
Rene H. Levy, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle where he served as chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics for 26 years. His interest in neuroscience grew out of his work in the field of epilepsy where he published more than 320 research articles and edited several books (on the treatment of epilepsy: “Antiepileptic Drugs”, Third Edition, Raven Press, 1989; Fourth Edition, Raven Press, 1995; “Antiepileptic Drugs” Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2002; on drug interactions, Metabolic Drug Interactions. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000).
Dr. Levy received numerous awards: “Ambassador for Epilepsy” in 1989, “Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science” in 2007, “Lifetime Achievement Award from the Epilepsy Foundation” in 2011, and in 2013, the highest award given by the American Epilepsy Society: the William G. Lennox-Cesare T. Lombroso Award. Dr Levy will receive the 2022 Gary Neil Prize for Innovation in Drug Development from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics for creating and developing the Drug Interaction Database of the University of Washington used by 2,500 research scientists from 130 organizations in 40 countries.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
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