Category: Divisions
Mary Carroll Receives ACS, AFPE Fellowships
July 11, 2008Mary Carroll, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received two fellowships for the 2008-09 academic year. The American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship selection committee named Carroll its Pfizer Fellow. The fellowship, a nationally competitive award, provides a one-year stipend of $24,000. Carroll will be invited to give a presentation on her research at the fall 2009 national meeting in Washington, D.C., as part of a symposium honoring her and the other fellows. She will receive a plaque and $1,000 to help cover travel and meeting expenses. Carroll also has been awarded a … Read more
School Recognized for Its Efforts to Increase Diversity
July 7, 2008The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program has recognized the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy with the Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award for the School’s efforts to increase the diversity of its student population and the health-care workforce. The NC-HCAP is an interinstitutional program of the UNC system designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students who are educated, trained, and employed in the health professions. The Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award recognizes individuals or entities that have proactively sought out and implemented strategies to increase underrepresented minorities in a health science discipline and/or who have worked … Read more
Upstream Biosciences Appoints Tropsha to Scientific Advisory Board
June 27, 2008Upstream Biosciences Inc. has appointed Alexander Tropsha, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, chair of the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, to the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Tropsha one of the world’s leading chemoinformatics experts. Chemoinformatics combines chemistry and computer science to accelerate the speed and reduce the cost of discovering drugs to treat disease. Joel L. Bellenson, chief executive officer of Upstream, said Dr. Tropsha brings invaluable knowledge and validation to the company’s drug discovery and drug development programs. “Dr. Tropsha is widely considered to be the leading authority in the world at applying chemoinformatics … Read more
Laura Bonifacio Earns AFAR-GSK Fellowship
June 14, 2008Laura Bonifacio, PharmD, a third-year graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an American Foundation for Aging Research-GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. The award is worth $2,000 and is potentially renewable. It will fund Bonifacio’s research project, which is involved in discovering the physiological mechanisms of aging. “Aging is interesting and poorly understood,” Bonifacio says. “We are looking for new cellular agents that are involved in controlling the aging process or that are controlled by the aging process. This will allow a richer understanding of aging and lead to new ways to control it … Read more
School Names Preceptors of the Year
June 1, 2008The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named the recipients of its 2008 preceptors and Area Health Education Center instructor of the year honors. Jennifer Askew, CPP, manager of outpatient/employee pharmacy services for New Hanover Health Network in Wilmington, has been named a Hospital Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year. Suzie Cala Harris, BCPP, a clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, has been named AHEC Faculty Instructor of the Year. Jane Wyatt Maney, owner of Jane’s Rx Drugs in Mars Hill, has been named Community Pharmacy Preceptor … Read more
Emekalam Receives Bernstein Fellowship
May 29, 2008Anthony Emekalam, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a Jim Bernstein Community Health Leadership Fellow. Emekalam will receive a two-year fellowship with at least $3,000 in funding. The fellowship program aims to develop future leaders to work in and improve the health of rural and other underserved communities and populations in North Carolina. The fellowships are individually tailored to work in concert with the fellow’s current work. Fellows are paired with mentors and will interact with health care leaders and work with various state agencies, university programs, nonprofit organizations, and … Read more
K. H. Lee Honored with Named Professorship
May 14, 2008The Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina has established an endowed professorship in honor of K. H. Lee, PhD, the long-time Kenan Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC School of Pharmacy. Alex Tropsha, PhD, the chair of the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, is the recipient of the $500,000 professorship. “Dr. Lee and Dr. Tropsha have both had a major impact on our research and graduate education programs,” says Bob Blouin, dean of the School. “This is a fitting way to recognize Dr. Lee for his impressive accomplishments and to reward Dr. Tropsha for the important contributions … Read more
Persky Named ACSM Fellow
May 1, 2008Adam Persky, PhD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been named a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Persky, who is in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, will be inducted into the fellowship program during the ACSM’s national meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 28-31. He will also deliver a tutorial lecture at the conference on May 29 about drug interactions with nutrients, supplements and exercise. The ACSM Fellowship program recognizes professional achievement and competence in the related disciplines of sports medicine through education, published works, and professional practice, as well … Read more
Roth Receives Grant from NARSAD
April 29, 2008Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a Distinguished Investigators Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the largest donor-supported organization in the world that supports research on brain and behavior disorders. NARSAD awarded eleven Distinguished Investigators grants this year from a pool of 160 applicants. The one-year, $100,000 grants will support research with the greatest potential to lead the field forward in its understanding and treatment of serious mental illness. Roth is using new methodology recently invented in his lab to create mice with specially engineered characteristics, with … Read more
Juliano to Oversee School’s Research and Graduate Education
April 25, 2008The UNC School of Pharmacy has named Rudy Juliano, PhD, an expert in drug targeting, as its new associate dean for research and graduate education. Juliano fills the vacancy left by Dhiren Thakker, PhD, who stepped down to pursue other projects at the School. Before coming to the School, Juliano was the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, where he served as department chair from 1987 to 2002. In his new position, Juliano will oversee the School’s research and graduate education programs. One key component of his responsibilities will be … Read more