Category: Faculty
Kashuba Named McNeill Distinguished Professor
May 6, 2013Internationally known AIDS and HIV researcher Angela Kashuba, PharmD, has been awarded the John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professorship at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Kashuba studies the role of antiretroviral therapy in preventing the transmission of HIV along with the optimal dosing and drug combinations for treating HIV infection. She works to better understand the interactions between drugs and between drugs and signaling molecules, as well as the roles that gender and ethnicity play in the way drugs are processed by the body. She plays a significant role in the $32-million UNC-led Collaboratory of AIDS … Read more
Rhoney Named McFarlane Distinguished Professor
April 26, 2013Denise Rhoney, PharmD, chair of the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, is the first recipient of the Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professorship in Pharmacy Practice at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The professorship is a gift of Nancy McFarlane, mayor of Raleigh, and Ron McFarlane. The couple operates MedPro Rx Inc., an accredited specialty infusion pharmacy that provides medications and services to clients with chronic illness. Nancy McFarlane founded the company in 2002 and serves as the company’s president and CEO. Her husband is chief operating officer. “We are very grateful to the McFarlanes for their … Read more
Eckel Named Clinical Associate Professor, PACE Vice Chair
April 9, 2013Stephen Eckel, PharmD, MHA, has been named as clinical associate professor and vice chair for graduate and postgraduate education in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Eckel, an alumnus of the School, had been an adjunct assistant professor since 1999. He also serves as the associate director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals and oversees the hospital’s pharmacy residency programs. “In his dual role at the School and the hospital, Stephen has made numerous important contributions in education, practice, and research,” says Bob Blouin, PharmD, dean of the School. “He has proved … Read more
Caiola Receives UNC’s Brooks Award for Public Service
April 4, 2013The Carolina Center for Public Service awarded the 2013 Ned Brooks Award for Public Service to associate professor Steve Caiola, MS, in a ceremony on March 26. The center states that, for more than four decades, Caiola has promoted public service through his work with UNC Hospitals and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. After establishing the clinical pharmacy program at UNC Hospitals, he worked with Orange Chatham Comprehensive Health Service to move UNC into the community to improve the health care needs of the underserved. During that time, he also involved pharmacy students as charter members of the Student … Read more
Carpenter Study: Age, Depression Help Predict Nonadherence in Vasculitis Patients
March 13, 2013Younger patients and patients showing clinical signs of depression are less likely to adhere to their vasculitis medication, according to a study conducted by a team of researchers led by Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH, a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The study, published on the website of the journal Clinical Rheumatology, surveyed 228 patients who were on vasculitis medication and found that overall they reported a high level of adherence to their regimens. However, patients who were younger and had more symptoms of depression reported worse adherence on a follow-up survey three months after the … Read more
School Researchers Discover First-in-Class Chemical Probe
March 7, 2013A team of scientists led by researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have discovered a first-in-class chemical probe that will give researchers a powerful tool to investigate the function of malignant brain tumor domains in biology and disease. The discovery is discussed in the cover story of the March 2013 issue of Nature Chemical Biology. Lindsey James, PhD, a research assistant professor at the School, is the first author for the article. Stephen Frye, a Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor at the School and director of the School’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, is one of … Read more
School Spinoff Creates Moist Wipes for Chemotherapy Contamination
February 13, 2013ChemoGLO LLC, a spinoff company founded by two faculty members at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has developed Hazardous Drug Clean—or HDClean—a set of towlettes that removes contamination of hazardous drugs on surfaces. The company has signed a licensing agreement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the technology and will start offering HDClean in February. Stephen Eckel, PharmD, and William Zamboni, PharmD, PhD, cofounders of ChemoGLO, say each packet of HDClean has two towlettes, each containing a novel mixture. When used in sequence, the towlettes can remove all detectable anticancer drug contamination commonly found on … Read more
Fourches Receives Development Award to Find New Cancer Drug Candidates
February 4, 2013Denis Fourches, PhD, a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a $7,500 Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support his search for small-molecule inhibitors that selectively target p70S6, an enzyme that has been shown to play a critical role in the development of tumor cells. There is a need to identify potent and selective inhibitors of p70S6 for use in biomedical research, Fourches says. He plans to analyze and model all known p70S6 kinase inhibitors with advanced cheminformatics technologies. He will then use the most predictive … Read more
Mumper Receives University Distinguished Teaching Award
February 2, 2013Russ Mumper, PhD, is the 2013 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mumper was recognized along with other recipients during a half-time ceremony at the men’s basketball game against Virginia Tech on Saturday, February 2. The award will be formally presented by Chancellor Holden Thorp at a banquet at the Carolina Club in April. Mumper is the School’s vice dean and the John A. McNeill Distinguished Professor. “Both his students and his faculty colleagues were enthusiastic in their praise of Dr. Mumper’s commitment to the highest standards of … Read more
Oramasionwu Receives Development Award to Study HIV/HCV Patients’ Use of Outpatient Services
January 28, 2013Christine Oramasionwu, PharmD, PhD, has received a $7,500 UNC Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study how patients infected with both HIV and hepatitis C use outpatient health-care services. Patients with both HIV and HCV infections experience poorer health outcomes than patients who have just one infection or the other, Oramasionwu says, and one possible explanation may be that coinfected patients are underusing outpatient services. If that is true, she says, coinfected patients may not be receiving the recommended antiretroviral and antiviral medicines to the extent that patients with a single infection … Read more