Category: Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics
Photos: 2011 Awards Ceremony
April 18, 2011The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its 2011 Awards Ceremony on April 17 at the Rizzo Center. The complete list of award recipients follows the slideshow below. Click on one of the links to jump to a specific section. https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157626401321331/show/ Academic and Professional Awards TEVA Outstanding Student Award Amanda Misiewicz This award, sponsored by TEVA Pharmaceuticals, is given to the graduating student who has excelled in the study of pharmacy. T. R. Burgiss Family Award Jennifer Shealy Byrns This award is based on a student’s personal involvement in an intervention case that best illustrates the profession of pharmacy in … Read more
Graduate Student Wooten Inducted into UNC’s Highest Honorary Society
March 30, 2011Julian Wooten, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, the oldest and highest honorary society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wooten, the first member of the Order to come from the School, was selected for induction for his dedication and contributions to the issue of HIV/AIDS on campus and throughout the state. He has worked to spread awareness about the issue among students and North Carolinians and has advocated for increased HIV education and testing. He directed a documentary about the state of … Read more
Xiao Named MOPH Vice Chair
March 14, 2011Xiao Xiao, PhD, has been named vice chair of the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Xiao, the Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor of Gene Therapy, joined the division in 2006. His research focuses on gene delivery and therapy for various genetic and acquired diseases. His research on muscular dystrophy, especially Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, has received international recognition, and his groundbreaking work has been developed into the first gene therapy phase I clinical trial for DMD in the United States. In addition to assisting the division chair with the operation and administration of the division, Xiao’s primary … Read more
Three Graduate Students Earn Travel Awards for AAPS Workshop
February 10, 2011Three doctoral students at the School have earned travel awards for the 2011 AAPS Workshop on Drug Transporters in ADME: From the Bench to the Bedside. The students are Matthew Dufek from the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Nathan Pfeifer and Kyunghee Yang from the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. They will each receive $750 to cover travel and lodging for attending the workshop, which will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 14-16. Each student will deliver a podium presentation and take part in a poster session at the workshop. Titles for the students’ abstracts are: Dufek: Can … Read more
Lai Receives AACP New Faculty Award, NIAID Grant
January 24, 2011Sam Lai, PhD, has been honored with an AACP New Faculty Award and has received a $400,000 grant from NIAID to explore trapping HIV in mucus as a way of preventing infection. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Faculty Award program provides start-up funding for new pharmacy faculty’s research programs. As many as fifteen grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded in the 2010–2011 academic year to individual faculty starting their academic careers at AACP-member colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States. Lai also receives $1,000 from AACP for required travel to the AACP Annual … Read more
Graduate Student Wooten Directs AIDS Documentary
January 19, 2011Julian Wooten, a graduate student in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, has directed a documentary about the state of the HIV/AIDS movement in North Carolina. The film, “Heart to HARRT: The State of the Movement,” was released in early December 2010 for World AIDS Day and focuses on people in North Carolina who are living with the disease. Wooten says the goal of the film is to spread education and awareness about HIV/AIDS. He says he was inspired to make the documentary after noticing that much of the work he had seen on the topic was done many years ago. … Read more
Lai’s Gates Grant Will Put Viruses in Sticky Situation
November 9, 2010The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to fund a pharmacy researcher’s efforts to halt pathogens invading the body by stopping them in the mucous membranes. Samuel Lai, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, had his project selected as one of sixty-five grants announced by the Gates Foundation in the fifth funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. The grants … Read more
School Receives $6.6 Million to Finish Developing Radiation-Scrubbing Drug
October 15, 2010The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has received a $6.6 million federal contract to complete work on an easily-administered medication that can help clear radioactive elements from the body. The contract, awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has tasked UNC researchers led by principal investigator Michael Jay, PhD, with creating a form of diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid, commonly known as DTPA, that can be administered orally and distributed quickly to people affected by a nuclear accident or dirty-bomb attack. Dirty bombs are explosive devices designed to spread radioactive contamination. … Read more
Scientists Receive Nanotechnology Grant to Fight Pancreatic Cancer
September 28, 2010A team of UNC scientists has received a five-year $2,308,800 grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships to address the critical need for early diagnosis of and more effective treatments for pancreatic cancer. Wenbin Lin, PhD, professor of chemistry and pharmacy, and Jen Jen Yeh, MD, assistant professor of surgery, are the principal investigators. Leaf Huang, PhD, Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor and chair of molecular pharmaceutics in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the co-investigator. All are members of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Lin is a faculty member in the UNC College of Arts … Read more
NCI Awards $13.6 Million to UNC Nanotech Center
September 24, 2010Leaf Huang, PhD, and Russ Mumper, PhD, of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are among the project managers who will benefit from a five-year, $13.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence based at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through applying or using advances in nanotechnology. The grant will support the continued work of the center, which was launched in 2005 as part of NCI’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer. The C-CCNE, one of … Read more