UNC Schools Partner with Hamner Institutes
to Create Drug-Safety Center

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have formed a partnership with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences to establish the Center for Drug Safety Sciences based in Research Triangle Park.  READ MORE

Cho Receives 1.5 Million Grant to Deliver
a False Infection to Cancer Tumors

Associate Professor Moo J. Cho, PhD, Cho is creating a delivery system to infect a cancer tumor with bacterial elements in order to encourage the body’s immune system to recognize and attack the tumor without the dangerous side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He has received a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute worth more than $1.5 million to support his work.  READ MORE

Long to Lead IPIT's Pharmacoinformatics Facility

The UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy has named Kevin Long as the director of its new pharmacoinformatics facility, which was created to develop resources for assessing drug-gene relationships, performing computational pharmacology analysis and providing IT platforms for pharmacogenomics studies.  READ MORE