Rishi Desai, a grad student in DPOP, examined medication errors reported by NC nursing homes and found that 11 percent involved the transition into nursing home care. These errors were more likely to cause harm to the patient compared to errors occurring later.

Jasmine Talameh, PharmD, a graduate student in DPET, identified a genotype that could potentially be used to select patients with heart failure who would benefit from beta-blocker treatment

James Byrne, a grad student in MOPH, created an electric field-assisted delivery device that administers the anticancer drug gemcitabine directly into pancreatic cancer tumors.

The $500,000 professorship is a gift of John "Sandy" and Deborah McNeill, Jr. Sandy McNeill is a 1972 graduate of the School and is a founding director of Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc, one of the largest clinical research organizations in the world.

The $500,000 professorship is a gift of Nancy and Ron McFarlane who operate MedPro Rx Inc., an accredited specialty infusion pharmacy that provides medications and services to clients with chronic illness.