Category: Divisions
Sleath Receives $1.6 Million AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma
July 11, 2017Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., has received a grant worth nearly $1.6 million over four years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help reduce vision problems in African-Americans caused by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness for African-Americans; they are five times more likely to get glaucoma than white Americans and six times more likely to go blind from it. Glaucoma is a condition that can damage the optic nerve leading to loss of vision. It is caused by abnormally high pressure inside the eye. “We want to empower glaucoma patients to be more actively involved … Read more
Rodgers Honored with ACCP Clinical Practice Award
July 10, 2017Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., has been named the recipient of the 2017 Clinical Practice Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Rodgers is a clinical associate professor and associate director of clinical fellowship programs in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The ACCP Clinical Practice Award recognizes an ACCP member who has developed an innovative clinical pharmacy service, provided innovative documentation of the impact of clinical pharmacy services, provided leadership in the development of cost-effective clinical pharmacy services or shown sustained excellence in providing clinical pharmacy services. Rodgers is the first … Read more
Postdoc Elizabeth Wayne Reflects on TED Experience
June 28, 2017Elizabeth Wayne, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow studying how immune cells can be used to fight cancer, gave a TED talk on the main stage at TED 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. Wayne was announced as a TED fellow in January 2017. Wayne’s research focuses on targeted cancer therapy, attaching cancer-fighting genes to immune cells that are already being delivered by the body’s immune system to cancerous tumors. The idea, Wayne said, is to only treat the cancer itself rather than using treatments like chemotherapy, which cannot discriminate between damaging good cells and cancer cells. Of the weeklong event, the talk itself … Read more
Musgrove Receives Outstanding Employee Forum Delegate Award
June 20, 2017Katie Musgrove, executive associate for Kenan Distinguished Professor Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Ph.D., and the Natural Products Research Laboratories, was given the Kay Wijnberg Hovious Outstanding Employee Forum Delegate Award on June 14 after being nominated by her fellow delegates. The award recognizes the work of outstanding forum delegates who go above and beyond the call of duty when performing work on behalf of the forum. There are three winners each year, who are voted on by the other delegates. Ricky Roach, energy utilities technician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and forum delegate, nominated Musgrove for the award. … Read more
Katelyn Arnold Wins Second USP Fellowship
June 20, 2017Katelyn Arnold, a Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded a $25,000 predoctoral U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Global Fellowship for the second year in a row. The fellowship award, which is highly competitive and rarely goes to the same recipient twice, aims to advance new research contributing to innovative or updated quality standards for chemical and biological medicines, excipients, dietary supplements, herbal medicines, health-care quality and food ingredients. Arnold works in the lab of her adviser, McNeill Distinguished Professor Jian Liu, Ph.D., where she focuses on synthetic … Read more
McLaughlin Named a 2017 AACP Emerging Teaching Scholar
June 20, 2017Assistant Professor Jacqueline “Jacqui” McLaughlin, Ph.D., is the recipient of a 2017 Emerging Teaching Scholar Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. According to AACP, the Emerging Teaching Scholars Award recognizes the excellence of academic pharmacy faculty engaged in or supporting scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. In recognizing service and outstanding contributions to the academy, pharmacy education and schools, the AACP Council of Faculties Emerging Teaching Scholars raise the bar for scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. During her tenure at the School, McLaughlin helped develop four new courses for the … Read more
McGinty Awarded 2017 Pew-Stewart Scholarship to Pursue Cancer Research
June 15, 2017Robert McGinty, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a 2017 Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research. The scholarship awards $240,000 over a four-year term to early-career scientists whose research may accelerate discovery and advance progress to a cure for cancer. McGinty initially applied to the Pew Scholars Program but was offered the Pew-Stewart Scholarship instead because of the relevancy of his work to cancer treatment. McGinty studies the mechanisms governing epigenetic signaling at the nucleosome and chromatin levels. Nucleosomes are a basic … Read more
Independent Pharmacy Ownership Residency Welcomes Four New Residents
June 13, 2017The PGY1 Independent Pharmacy Ownership Residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy welcomed its second class of residents as the program expands to sites outside of North Carolina. The program trains Doctor of Pharmacy graduates to be owners of independent community pharmacies. The residents receive a practical business education to complement their pharmacy education. “A lot of new pharmacists are bursting with ambition and are motivated to work in the community pharmacy environment, but many don’t yet have the business savvy and skills necessary to succeed in that environment. We think our program will give these young pharmacists a … Read more
Zhen Gu Named Runner-Up for State Department ASPIRE Prize
June 13, 2017Zhen Gu, Ph.D., an adjunct professor in the School Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmceutics, is a runner-up in the 2017 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Wiley, and Elsevier. ASPIRE is an annual award hosted by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) that recognizes young scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in scientific research and cross-border research. Each APEC member economy identifies their own nominee for the prize, and the U.S. State Department’s Office of Science and Technology Cooperation, in conjunction with Wiley and Elsevier, holds an … Read more
Blouin Receives Honorary Degree from Monash University
June 12, 2017Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, conferred an honorary doctorate upon Robert A. “Bob” Blouin, dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, on May 25. Blouin is also the Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor at the School and serves as the director of the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, which pursues high-risk, high-reward ideas that advance innovation in education, research and health care. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is a partner of the Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ in PharmAlliance, a groundbreaking collaboration in research and education between three of the world’s top schools of pharmacy. The … Read more