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Yuhang Jiang Wins UNC Grad School Impact Award
May 11, 2017Yuhang Jiang, Ph.D., a December 2016 graduate of the pharmaceutical sciences doctoral program at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a 2017 Horizon Award from the UNC Graduate School for his research into a treatment to repair the damage to the brain caused by stroke. He is now a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the number-one cause of long-term disability in North Carolina. An estimated 20 percent of stroke survivors require long-term care, and up to 30 percent are permanently disabled. Current treatment focuses on restoring blood flow (known … Read more
Mickey League, Brian Murray Named 2017 Preceptors of the Year
May 10, 2017Mickey League, M.S., of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Brian Murray, Pharm.D., are the recipients of the 2017 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Claude Paoloni Preceptor of the Year Awards. The awards are given annually to the School’s top health-care-system and community-pharmacy preceptors and were created by the Paoloni family in memory of their father, Claude Paoloni, in recognition of his years of service to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Kim Leadon, M.Ed., who directs the School’s legacy APPE curriculum presented the awards to League and Murray, who were selected by the graduating Pharm.D. class for their outstanding contribution … Read more
School Hits $36 Million in External Research Funding, Leads in Faculty Funded
May 9, 2017Faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy brought in $36.3 million in extramural research funding in 2016, ranking second among the nation’s schools of pharmacy according to data compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The School had 53 investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health, more than any pharmacy school in the country. The School also led the nation’s pharmacy schools in the total number of investigators funded from federal sources with 60 and funded from all sources with 87. The School was first in funding awards from sources other than the federal government at … Read more
Super Shortcut Makes Quantum Calculations a Million Times Faster
May 4, 2017For those tired of having to book a supercomputer every time they want to design a new drug molecule, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida have created a shortcut that can make the process up to a million times faster. When creating a treatment for a disease, scientists look for biological targets that control specific processes in the body. These targets can be thought of as “locks,” and researchers need to design extremely complex molecular keys to fit these locks. To design a molecular key, scientist need to be able to … Read more
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
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