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Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy welcomes new research assistant professor
January 21, 2020The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy (DPOP) is thrilled to announce the recent hire of Research Assistant Professor Scott Davis, Ph.D. Davis just completed a National Institutes of Health post-doc at UNC in implementation science and is an alumni of the DPOP program, having graduated with his Ph.D. in 2018. He received his Master of Arts in teaching from Boston University in 2005, and his Bachelor of Art in Computer Science and Russian Civilization from the University of Chicago in 2003. In 2001, Davis studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, … Read more
Rural Pharmacy Scholar awarded national Zada M. Cooper Scholarship
January 17, 2020Kulchanok “Liw” Panichakornkul was selected for the national Zada M. Cooper Scholarship, an annual award given by the Kappa Epsilon Foundation. The scholarship, which is named after a founding member of Kappa Epsilon (KE), chooses its recipients based off their high academic standards and involvement in the professional pharmacy fraternity and respective school. “It’s such a great honor for me to be one of the five recipients of this national award as it not only recognizes my accomplishments within the Beta Mu Chapter, but also my contributions to the School as well,” said the third-year pharmacy student. “KE really means … Read more
Student accepted into Rural Interprofessional Longitudinal Scholars Program; hopes to practice pharmacy in western NC
January 6, 2020Abby Nolan Catherman has only lived in North Carolina since 2015, but she’s already on her way to make a lasting impact in the state.
Savage honored with The Ohio State’s Clinical Achievement Award
January 6, 2020Even after decades in the field of pharmacy, Scott Savage said he still gets a nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach because he’s doing work he’s passionate about and he wants to get it right. Savage, Pharm.D., MS, felt those same butterflies as he accepted The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Jerry Siegel Clinical Achievement Award on Dec. 8, in Las Vegas. Savage earned his Master of Science, Health-System Pharmacy Administration from the university and completed his residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The Jerry Siegel Clinical Achievement Award is intended to recognize one … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation awards students, postdocs
December 20, 2019The Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII) recently completed their 4th EII Student/Postdoc Project award cycle, awarding $25,000 to three student teams totaling $75,000. Lead Innovators and project titles include: Bryce Hart, Development of a small molecule ligand for DCAF1 (PhD student in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Division) Sabrina Iskander, Exploiting Promiscuous tRNA Synthetases to Identify Non-Canonical Peptide Inhibitors of KRAS via mRNA Display (PhD student in Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Center) Jasmine King, In-situ Thermogelling injectable hydrogel to enhance cytotoxic neural stem cell delivery for post-surgical Glioblastoma multiforme (PhD student in Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics … Read more
Researcher’s postdoc work on micronutrients published in Science journal
December 18, 2019Aaron Anselmo, Ph.D., is looking for new ways to deliver micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, to people across the world. “Currently a lot of different foods are fortified with micronutrients in the developing world, but some of these fortification approaches don’t address the end use of the product,” he said. “For example, cooking at high temperatures and long times can result in degradation of the fortified micronutrient which then won’t be absorbed by the body.” Anselmo is currently an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics. His lab conducts research on therapeutic … Read more