McLeod Honored with Coriell Scientific AwardThe Coriell Institute for Medical Research is presenting Howard McLeod, PharmD, with one of its 2012 Coriell Personalized Medicine Research Awards. Coriell is known for its Personalized Medicine Collaborative research study, which examines the usefulness of genetic risk and pharmacogenomics in clinical decision making and health-care management.
Lai Receives NSF Award to Support Mucus Research, Science Education OutreachIn addition to exploring using mucus to stop pathogens, Lai will help develop a curriculum to teach middle and high school students about the health benefits of mucus.
School Names 2012 Instructors and Preceptors of the Year
Function of Enzyme 3-OST becomes Crystal Clear to LiuJian Liu, PhD, led a team that included PY1 Susan Woody that crystallized 3-O-sulfotransferase, an enzyme (represented by the green ribbon in the illustration) cruicial to Liu's process of creating synthetic heparin.
Mike Jay to Chair Molecular PharmaceuticsMike Jay, PhD, succeeds Leaf Huang, PhD, as chair of the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics. Jay is highly regarded in the fields of drug delivery and radiopharmaceutics.
