Category: Academic Programs
Photos: 2010 Carolina LEAD Program
June 17, 2010The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its second annual Carolina Pharmacy Leadership Excellence, And Development (LEAD) program on June 15-16. LEAD is a preparatory and professional development program for students who are interested in exploring a career in pharmacy and learning how to be competitive in the pharmacy-school admissions process. The programs are geared toward, but not limited to, underserved and underrepresented students. Attendees participated in breakout sessions in which they were introduced to some aspects of pharmacy, such as compounding, and had an opportunity to talk about a career in pharmacy with School faculty and current students. The … Read more
2010 Awards Banquet
May 1, 2010The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its 2010 Awards Banquet on April 30 at the Carolina Club in Alumni Hall. Here is the list of award recipients. Student Academic Awards Student Activities Awards Teaching Awards Special Recognition Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society Rho Chi National Honor Society STUDENT ACADEMIC AWARDS TEVA Outstanding Student Award Brian Murray This award, sponsored by TEVA Pharmaceuticals, is given to the graduating student who has excelled in the study of pharmacy. Facts and Comparisons Award for Excellence in Clinical Communications Jamie Lin Jurkiewicz This award, sponsored by Facts and Comparisons, is given in … Read more
School to Expand PharmD Satellite Program at UNC Asheville
April 9, 2010The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Friday, April 9, approved the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s plan to expand its pharmacy-education program to UNC Asheville in partnership with Mission Health System. The School will create a satellite doctor of pharmacy program that will be based at UNC Asheville. The program at UNC Asheville is an expansion of the successful partnership the School has had with Elizabeth City State University since 2005. That program will graduate its second class in May. The start-up costs for the program will be covered by a $2.5 million fund-raising initiative spearheaded by … Read more
Photos: 2010 White Coat Ceremony
March 28, 2010Third-year students at the School received the white coat — the traditional symbol of health professionals — at the White Coat ceremony on March 28 to mark their transition into the final year of the doctor of pharmacy program. The ceremony is a tradition designed to reflect the responsibility, professionalism, and commitment expected of students beginning their final year of the PharmD program. Howard McLeod, PharmD, director of the School’s Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, delivered the keynote speech. Regina Schomberg, president of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, also spoke. Faculty members Lisa Dinkins, PharmD; Adam Persky, PhD; … Read more
Photos: Commencement 2010
March 28, 2010https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncpaa/sets/72157624016994405/show/
Photos: Family Day 2010
March 27, 2010The School held its annual Family Day on Saturday, March 27. The event gives parents of the School’s PharmD students a taste of their experience at the School. PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpaa/sets/72157623603421803/show/
Two Student-Faculty Tandems Earn AACP Walmart Scholarships
March 25, 2010Community pharmacy resident Ashley Branham, PharmD, PY4 student Tsu-Hsuan “Sherry” Yang, and their faculty mentors have won Walmart Scholarships from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This marks the fourth consecutive year that members of the School have won Walmart Scholarships. The awards, which began in 2005, aim to strengthen the recipients’ skills and commitment to careers in academic pharmacy through their participation at the AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars. Each student-faculty pair will receive $1,000 to help cover registration and travel expenses for the AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars on July 10-14 in Seattle, Washington. Branham, mentored by … Read more
MCNP Graduate Student Receives TraCS Grant
March 2, 2010Jui-Hua Hsieh, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has received a $2,000 grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute to fund her project, “Design of Novel Therapeutic Agents against Mer Kinase for Cancer Treatment.” Elevated expression and activity of the enzyme Mer kinase are associated with various types of cancers, and researchers have found very few small-molecules inhibitors against Mer kinase so far, Hsieh says. Hsieh’s project will try to identify novel, potent Mer kinase inhibitors. She will use computer programs to virtually screen large libraries of chemical structures and use … Read more
Award Powers Students’ MTM Initiative at Local Clinic
March 2, 2010The Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is the recipient of a $2,000 Project CHANCE award from the American Pharmacists Association to provide medication-therapy-management services at a local health clinic. The grant will allow pharmacy students to provide medication-therapy-management services to select patients at the Student Health Action Coalition Clinic at the Carrboro Community Health Clinic in Carrboro, N.C. Jennifer Byrns, a third-year PharmD student and the lead author of the School’s proposal to APhA, says pharmacy students will enroll in the project ten to fifteen patients who use the emergency department at UNC Hospitals … Read more
NIH Funds Grad Student’s Enzymatic Inhibitions
February 25, 2010Sherket Peterson, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has received an NIH award worth approximately $100,000 over three years to support her efforts to create an inhibitor for the enzyme heparanase. “In our lab, we study heparin and heparan sulfate, but my project is related to heparanase, which is an enzyme that acts on heparan sulfate,” Peterson says. “This enzyme has been linked to a wide array of cancers.” In cancer and certain other health conditions, heparanase often becomes too abundant or unregulated. In cancer, this enzymatic excess can promote metastasis (the spread of … Read more