Category: General
Steeb, Urick Receive AACP New Investigator Awards
March 11, 2019Two professors from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy received New Investigator Awards from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. David Steeb, Pharm.D., M.P.H., and Ben Urick, Pharm.D., Ph.D., won 2019 New Investigator Awards from the AACP. Steeb is a clinical assistant professor and Urick is a research assistant professor, both in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education. The New Investigator Award provides start-up funding for the independent research programs of early-career pharmacy faculty. Steeb’s research proposal, entitled Development and Assessment of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Global Health, will survey global health experts in pharmacy, medicine, … Read more
UNC Catalyst Hosts Rare Diseases Day Awareness Event
March 6, 2019The UNC Catalyst for Rare Diseases hosted a meet-and-greet in the Genetic Medicine Building on Feb. 27 for Rare Diseases Day. Catalyst scientists provided guests an overview of the research group’s mission and rare disease projects. UNC Catalyst is a research group focused on understanding and counteracting rare diseases. It creates high quality research tools to explore disease pathobiology, in order to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and help define options for therapeutic intervention. “There are very few centers like Catalyst that are solely dedicated to rare diseases, nationally or internationally,” said Catalyst director Anthony Hickey, Ph.D. “We benefit … Read more
Martin, Hanafin Win Presidential Trainee Awards from ASCPT
March 4, 2019Two students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy were awarded the Presidential Trainee Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Jesse Martin and Patrick Hanafin were among the 17 recipients of the award, which recognizes the top scoring abstracts submitted by clinical pharmacologists in training. Martin also received the ASCPT Jason Morrow Trainee Award for the second-highest scoring trainee abstract submitted. The award includes a $1,000 prize. Both students will be recognized and receive their awards at the ASCPT Annual Meeting in March in Washington, DC. Martin is a third-year Pharm.D. student in the Research and … Read more
UNC Chapel Hill Ranked 10th in the World for Pharmacy and Pharmacology
March 1, 2019The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked 10th in the world for pharmacy and pharmacology in the recently released 2019 QS World University Rankings. UNC was ranked 21st in the same category in 2018. Among American universities, Carolina’s pharmacy and pharmacology programs rank fourth overall. The QS World University Rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 48 subjects, based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact. Four factors are used to create the rating: A survey of over 83,000 academics worldwide A survey of 42,000 graduate employers A measure of Scopus citations per faculty member … Read more
Jackie Gerhart Wins BAHM Case Competition
February 27, 2019Jackie Gerhart, a Ph.D. student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, took first place at the Business School Alliance for Health Management Case Competition at Harvard Business School on Feb. 9. Gerhart and her partner, Aditi Borde, a dual MHA/MBA candidate, won a $10,000 first place prize for their pitch idea for a partnership with Walmart and Blue Cross Blue Shield NC to develop an incentivized diabetes management program for rural communities. Gerhart is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Daniel Gonzalez, Pharm.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Nearly 40 students … Read more
Paavo Honkakoski Receives Keohane Professorship
February 25, 2019Paavo Honkakoski, Ph.D., a global expert on nuclear receptors, will return to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a recipient of the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship in 2019-20. Honkakoski is a professor of Biopharmacy at the School of Pharmacy and Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. The Keohane Professorship is designed to promote collaboration and the enhancement of intellectual life between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, with an emphasis on contributions to the teaching missions of both universities. Past recipients have catalyzed cross-campus undergraduate and graduate programs, conducted joint projects with Carolina and … Read more
Mariya Popova Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
February 21, 2019Mariya Popova, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, is the recipient of the 2019-20 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. Popova is supervised by Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D., and Olexandr Isayev, Ph.D. Her research focuses on applications and development of deep learning methods for computational chemistry and drug design. Popova is developing deep learning algorithms to solve computational chemistry problems, such as the generation of novel molecules with desired properties and prediction of a synthesis path for a given chemical compound. “My research goal is to revolutionize drug design with artificial intelligence,” she said. “Having these problems solved will speed … Read more
Alumni in China Find UNC Community through Carolina China Club
February 19, 2019The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has a global alumni network — and UNC’s alumni presence is particularly strong in China. The Carolina China Club, UNC’s alumni association in China, has over 500 members across UNC’s various schools, about one-fifth of whom are health sciences alumni. The club hosts events ranging from lectures to UNC basketball watch parties. Members of the club’s health sciences group met with Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., M.H.A., and Ashley Qi, M.B.A., during their visit to Beijing last November. Eckel is the School’s associate dean for global engagement and Qi is its associate director of China initiatives. … Read more
North Carolina Health Professions Fair Week 2019
February 15, 2019Come meet us at one of the North Carolina Health Professions Week events! We will have representation at each to talk about our PharmD and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences programs. Monday, March 25 UNC-Wilmington, 10:00am – 1:00pm East Carolina University, 4:00pm – 7:00pm Tuesday, March 26 UNC-Chapel Hill, 1:00pm – 4:00pm Duke University, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Wednesday, March 27 NC State University, 11:00am – 2:00pm UNC-Greensboro, 6:00 – 8:00pm Thursday, March 28 Wake Forest University, 11:00am – 2:00pm Appalachian State University, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Christine Ko to Represent UNC Pharmacy at CLARION Case Competition
February 13, 2019Third-year Pharm.D. student Christine Ko will represent the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the CLARION interprofessional health care case competition. Ko is a member of UNC’s four-person interdisciplinary team, which also includes Natalie Browne, of the Gillings School of Global Public Health; Uzma Khan, of the Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling program at the School of Medicine; and Monica Kim, of the School of Dentistry. The competition is held at the University of Minnesota in April. It is organized by CLARION, a University of Minnesota student organization dedicated to improving health care through interprofessional collaboration. Student teams, consisting … Read more