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Savage honored with The Ohio State’s Clinical Achievement Award
January 6, 2020Even after decades in the field of pharmacy, Scott Savage said he still gets a nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach because he’s doing work he’s passionate about and he wants to get it right. Savage, Pharm.D., MS, felt those same butterflies as he accepted The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Jerry Siegel Clinical Achievement Award on Dec. 8, in Las Vegas. Savage earned his Master of Science, Health-System Pharmacy Administration from the university and completed his residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The Jerry Siegel Clinical Achievement Award is intended to recognize one … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation awards students, postdocs
December 20, 2019The Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII) recently completed their 4th EII Student/Postdoc Project award cycle, awarding $25,000 to three student teams totaling $75,000. Lead Innovators and project titles include: Bryce Hart, Development of a small molecule ligand for DCAF1 (PhD student in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Division) Sabrina Iskander, Exploiting Promiscuous tRNA Synthetases to Identify Non-Canonical Peptide Inhibitors of KRAS via mRNA Display (PhD student in Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Center) Jasmine King, In-situ Thermogelling injectable hydrogel to enhance cytotoxic neural stem cell delivery for post-surgical Glioblastoma multiforme (PhD student in Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics … Read more
Researcher’s postdoc work on micronutrients published in Science journal
December 18, 2019Aaron Anselmo, Ph.D., is looking for new ways to deliver micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, to people across the world. “Currently a lot of different foods are fortified with micronutrients in the developing world, but some of these fortification approaches don’t address the end use of the product,” he said. “For example, cooking at high temperatures and long times can result in degradation of the fortified micronutrient which then won’t be absorbed by the body.” Anselmo is currently an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics. His lab conducts research on therapeutic … Read more
New NIH proposal aims to advance Alzheimer’s drug discovery research
October 1, 2019(Photo courtesy of Stephen Frye) A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are part of a new research proposal to create chemical and biological tools to explore novel molecular targets related to Alzheimer’s disease. The proposal, which was submitted through the NIH National Institute on Aging, aims to create new chemical probes to validate therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s, which has no known cure, and very few treatments. The project was awarded $37.5 million for five years. Emory University is the leader on the proposal, which is a collaboration between five institutions including UNC. The … Read more
Wolcott awarded for presentation at Monash Pharmacy Education Symposium
September 6, 2019Clinical assistant professor Michael Wolcott, Pharm.D., Ph.D., from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and UNC School of Dentistry, won Best Oral Presentation for Educational Frameworks at the Monash Pharmacy Education Symposium in Prato, Italy. Wolcott works in both the School of Pharmacy’s Division of Practical Advancement and Clinical Education and the School of Dentistry’s Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences. The Monash symposium is held in Italy every two years in July and features presentations on various topics within pharmacy education. His research presentation focused on his work with preceptors (pharmacists who serve as mentors or instructors in a clinical … Read more