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Independent Pharmacy Ownership Residency Welcomes Four New Residents
June 13, 2017The PGY1 Independent Pharmacy Ownership Residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy welcomed its second class of residents as the program expands to sites outside of North Carolina. The program trains Doctor of Pharmacy graduates to be owners of independent community pharmacies. The residents receive a practical business education to complement their pharmacy education. “A lot of new pharmacists are bursting with ambition and are motivated to work in the community pharmacy environment, but many don’t yet have the business savvy and skills necessary to succeed in that environment. We think our program will give these young pharmacists a … Read more
Blouin Receives Honorary Degree from Monash University
June 12, 2017Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, conferred an honorary doctorate upon Robert A. “Bob” Blouin, dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, on May 25. Blouin is also the Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor at the School and serves as the director of the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, which pursues high-risk, high-reward ideas that advance innovation in education, research and health care. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is a partner of the Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ in PharmAlliance, a groundbreaking collaboration in research and education between three of the world’s top schools of pharmacy. The … Read more
Eshelman Awarded Honorary Degree by UNC
June 8, 2017Fred Eshelman, Pharm.D., was recognized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an honorary Doctor of Science at the University’s 2017 Commencement held May 14. The University awards honorary degrees to people who have rendered outstanding service to humanity in the world arena, in our nation, in the American South or in North Carolina; people who have made outstanding contributions to knowledge in the world of scholarship; people whose talent and creativity in the world of the arts has enriched lives; and people whose devotion to and support of the University merits the highest recognition. CNN’s Brooke … Read more
Breakthrough Tool Predicts Properties of Theoretical Materials, Finds New Uses for Current Ones
June 6, 2017Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University have created the first general-purpose method for using machine learning to predict the properties of new metals, ceramics and other crystalline materials and to find new uses for existing materials, a discovery that could save countless hours wasted in the trial-and-error process of creating new and better materials. Researchers led by Olexandr Isayev, Ph.D., and Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D., at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used data on approximately 60,000 unique materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to create a … Read more
Doctors Receiving Pharma Payments More Likely to Prescribe Certain Cancer Drugs
June 1, 2017Physicians paid by pharmaceutical companies for meals, talks and travel had higher odds of prescribing those companies’ drugs to treat two cancer types, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study has found. “Ideally, therapy choices should be based on two things and two things only: medical evidence and patient preference,” said Aaron Mitchell, M.D., a fellow in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology & Oncology and the study’s lead author. “As patient advocates, we should try to eliminate any barriers to this. We saw a pretty consistent increase in prescribing of a company’s drug stemming from … 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
Students Succeed at 2017 SNPhA Regions I and II Conference
April 25, 2017Students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association had a good showing at the 2017 SNPhA Regions I and II Conference held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, March 17-19. PY2 Roderick Gladney from Thomasville, North Carolina, and PY2 Nakiya Whitfield from Spring Lake, North Carolina, placed second in the clinical skills competition. PY2 Alyssa Morgan from Durham, North Carolina, and PY2 Dena Evans from Greensboro, North Carolina, received honorable mention in the clinical skills competition and placed second in the poster competition. Additionally, the Regional Conference Host Committee, led by Gladney and … 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