October 18, 2007
The UNC School of Pharmacy has promoted Abdelnaser Rezk, PhD, to research assistant professor.
Rezk has been working as a research associate and research instructor in the School’sDivision of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Pharmaceutics since 2004. He also is a research associate and associate director for the Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research, as well as the Verne S. Caviness General Clinical Research Center Analytical Chemistry Laboratory.
Rezk develops ways to measure drugs and metabolites in biological fluids to answer important questions in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. The data he generates are critical to improving patient care. In 2006, he received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Innovation and the State Employees’ Award for Excellence in Innovation in recognition of his work with the Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (CPACL) at the School. The lab, directed by Associate Professor Angela Kashuba, BScPhm, PharmD, DABCP, consistently ranks first out of six national labs and seventy international labs in the number of drugs measured and the accuracy with which they are measured.
Rezk earned his PhD in clinical chemistry from Tanta University in Egypt and did his practical work course in the CPACL at UNC. He also holds a master’s degree in biochemistry and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from El-Menoufia University in Egypt.
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