George Zografi

Biography

 George Zografi, Ph.D. is the Edward Kremers Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He received his B.S. in Pharmacy from Columbia University in 1956 and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1960.  In 1972, after serving on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin.  From 1975-1980 he served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Zografi’s research interests have been focused in two areas: the properties of solids in the in the amorphous state and the surface chemistry of lipids, polymers and proteins in monolayer and bilayer systems, as they both relate to various aspects of the drug development process.  He was the recipient of the APhA Ebert Prize in 1984 and 2001, the AAPS Dale E. Wurster Award for Pharmaceutics in 1990, the AAPS Distinguished Scientist Award in 1995 and the AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award in 1996.  In 1989, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research Interest

 Pharmacy, Biochemistry