April 22, 2024
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Dean Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., was selected for the 2024 Carolina Alumni Faculty Service Award. Established in 1990, the award “honors faculty members who have performed outstanding service for the University or the alumni association.”
“This award is a true honor, and I’m humbled to be selected. Behind each of these accomplishments, is a team of people who have supported, challenged, mentored and worked alongside me—I would be remiss if I didn’t thank those who have led me here,” said Kashuba.
The award citation outlines her many impressive accomplishments but gives credit to her down-to-earth approachability and servant leadership. Originally from Toronto, she is a first-generation college student and pursued the profession after her mother’s recommendation.
She joined the School faculty in 1997 and immediately stepped into HIV research. The citation shares, “She began developing tools and strategies to determine where small-molecule HIV drugs traveled in the body. She generated a tremendous amount of data in a short period of time, and within a couple years she had a reputation as one of the leading HIV pharmacologists in the country. She was known for her research veracity, creativity and management of difficult situations.”
Her research led to creating her own lab focused on optimizing antiretroviral pharmacology in the treatment, prevention and eradication of HIV infection. She was also awarded the first grant she ever applied for. In 2013, Kashuba was named the John A. and Margaret P. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor, and she chaired the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics from 2015-2019.
It was in 2019 when she became the School’s first female dean. She also directs the Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core at UNC’s Center for AIDS Research. Her accolades don’t end there – in 2020 she received the Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacologists and Therapeutics and was recently named co-chair of the Walgreens Deans Advisory Council.
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