UW School of Pharmacy: Breaking Bad Chemistry

Heather Barkholtz, PhD, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy and Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) stands in the WSLH Forensic Toxicology laboratory where testing is performed for some of her research.

The UW School of Pharmacy profiles Assistant Professor Heather Barkholtz’s latest research in “Breaking Bad Chemistry”.

Barkholtz, who holds a joint appointment with the UW School of Pharmacy and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s Forensic Toxicology section, received a National Institute of Justice grant to “…tease out the toxicological difference between mirror-image meth isomers.”

Barkholtz is also collaborating with School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine and Public Health faculty to research the intoxicating properties of various cannabinoids found in cannabis or marijuana products.

Read the story – https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/2024/09/05/breaking-bad-chemistry/