Angela Kashuba, PharmD, has been named to the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health. Kashuba is the first representative of pharmacy or the pharmaceutical sciences to join the group.
The members serve four-year terms and provide guidance to the director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. The ACRWH advises the ORWH director on NIH research activities on women’s health, reviews the women’s health research portfolio for NIH, surveys goals for scientific career development, and assists with ORWH’s role to ensure inclusion of women and minorities in NIH clinical research.
ACRWH members are selected from among distinguished physicians, health-care practitioners, scientists, and other health professionals who are not federal employees and who have a clinical practice, research specialization, or professional expertise that includes a significant focus on research on women’s health.
Kashuba is the John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core.