Three Graduate Students to be Recognized at AAPS Annual Meeting

Three graduate students from the UNC School of Pharmacy will be recognized at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting in San Diego, California, on November 11-15.

• Dongmei Lu will receive the Ligand Binding Award. She will also participate in the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Biotechnology with a presentation titled “Aerosol Delivery of Recombinant Antigen 85B in Microparticle Vaccine Systems for Protection Against Tuberculosis.”
• Shyh-dar Li is the recipient of the Lipid-based Drug Delivery Award and will participate at the 2007 AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Technologies. His presentation is titled “Targeted Delivery of siRNA for Lung Cancer and Lung metastasis Therapy.”
• Rob Garmise will receive the 2007 AAPS Outstanding Graduate Research Award in Pharmaceutical Technologies for his manuscript, titled “Novel Dry Powder Preparation of Whole Inactivated Influenza Virus for Nasal Vaccination”.

All three students are from the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics. Lu and Garmise are members of Professor Anthony J. Hickey’s research laboratory. Shyh-dar Li is a member of Professor Leaf Huang’s laboratory.

Founded in 1986, the AAPS is a professional scientific society with more than twelve thousand members who work in academia, industry, government and other research institutes worldwide.