Category: Divisions
Huang Receives 2018 Drug Targeting Lifetime Achievement Award
April 25, 2017Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor Leaf Huang, Ph.D., is the recipient of the Journal of Drug Targeting Lifetime Achievement Award for 2018 for his many outstanding contributions to drug delivery and targeting. The Lifetime Achievement Award is an annual award given by the journal’s editorial board and publishers to a scientist who has made exceptional and sustained contributions to drug delivery and targeting. Previous winners include Professor Emeritus Rudy Juliano, Ph.D., of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. A special issue of the Journal of Drug Targeting will be produced in Huang’s honor. Huang has published over 380 peer-reviewed articles, over … Read more
Rachel Bleich Wins UNC Grad School Impact Award
April 21, 2017Rachel Bleich, a graduate student in the pharmaceutical sciences at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a 2017 Horizon Award from the UNC Graduate School for her research into antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The Graduate School’s annual Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards recognize graduate students for contributions they are making to our state. The longstanding GEAB Impact Award recognizes discoveries with a direct impact on our state in the present time. New for 2017, the Horizon Award recognizes discoveries with future potential to benefit North Carolina and beyond. Bleich works in the lab of her adviser, Assistant Professor Albert … Read more
Brouwer Delivers Krantz Lecture at University of the Sciences
April 21, 2017Kenan Distinguished Professor Kim L.R. Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D., delivered the 2017 John C. Krantz, Jr. Lecture at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia on April 6. Brouwer is the associate dean for research and graduate education at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and was selected to give the 30th annual Krantz Lecture on Research Day at University of the Sciences. The topic of her presentation was “Advancing Precision Medicine with the Science of Drug Transporters.” Recent advances in the science of drug transporters have revealed that these proteins play key roles in the absorption, distribution and excretion of many … Read more
AMCP Chapter Wins in First Trip to National P&T Case Competition
April 18, 2017The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy student chapter took first place in the 2017 National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics Competition, winning a $4,000 scholarship for the School. The competition took place on March 29 at the AMCP Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Denver, and the team was presented with the award during the award ceremony the following day. With a record 60 student chapters registering for the P&T competition, the School’s student chapter was one of eight finalist teams selected to participate in the national competition, the first year the team … Read more
Second Carolina Nanoformulation Workshop Shares Discoveries in Nanomedicine
April 18, 2017From March 13 to 17, scientists from industry and academia came together at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to learn about and to get hands-on experience with the latest advances in nanomedicine at the second annual Carolina Nanoformulation Workshop. The workshop is a unique blend of classroom and hands-on training that stresses application and participation. It featured 18 speakers and two days of seminars for more than 30 participants followed by three days of practical experience in the laboratories of the School’s Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery. The goal of the CNW is to provide safe and effective … Read more
Many ADHD Kids Have Questions for Their Doctor but Don’t Ask
April 18, 2017Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder want to ask their physicians about their condition and medications but often don’t, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We have found that there has been very little research into how providers, parents and youth communicate about ADHD and ADHD medications,” said Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. “What we do know that kids often aren’t part of the conversation when their parents and doctors are talking ADHD. We wanted to … Read more
Cen Guo Receives 2016 Brewington Award as Most Outstanding Graduate Student
April 17, 2017Cen Guo, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the School’s Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Student Research Award, which is given annually to the most outstanding doctoral student in the pharmaceutical sciences. Under the guidance of Kim Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Guo’s dissertation research focuses on hepatic transporters and pharmacokinetic modeling. Hepatic transporters are critical determinants of the disposition of drugs and endogenous compounds, which are those that originate from within the body. Hepatic transporters can be affected by drugs, genetic variations and disease states, and … Read more
UNC, Russian Scientists Create Biological Shield against Nerve Gas, Pesticides
April 3, 2017Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Moscow State University have created a new way to package and deliver a potent enzyme that can reverse — and even prevent — poisoning by pesticides and nerve gas, including VX and sarin, which has been used worldwide as a chemical weapon and estimated to be 26 times more deadly than cyanide. The team, led by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr.Sci., Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished Professor, figured out how to wrap the powerful enzyme, called organophosphorus hydrolase, in a tiny nanoparticle, which could be taken before, during … Read more
Persky Receives 2017 AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award
April 3, 2017Adam Persky, Ph.D., has been named a recipient of a 2017 Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He will be honored along with one other recipient during the Opening General Session of this year’s AACP Annual Meeting, held July 15–19 in Nashville, Tennessee. Persky is a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He joined the School in 2004, and he served as the director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Pharmacy from 2011 to 2013. Persky has received several prestigious teaching … Read more
Pharmacy’s Robert McGinty Named 2017 Searle Scholar
March 31, 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 Searle Scholar. He is the first Searle Scholar named at the University of North Carolina in the past 10 years. The Searle Scholars Program named 15 scientists as Searle Scholars for 2017. Recipients are awarded $300,000 in flexible funding to support their work over the next three years. The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the … Read more