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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
Second Carolina Nanoformulation Workshop Shares Discoveries in Nanomedicine
April 18, 2017From March 13 to 17, scientists from industry and academia came together at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to learn about and to get hands-on experience with the latest advances in nanomedicine at the second annual Carolina Nanoformulation Workshop. The workshop is a unique blend of classroom and hands-on training that stresses application and participation. It featured 18 speakers and two days of seminars for more than 30 participants followed by three days of practical experience in the laboratories of the School’s Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery. The goal of the CNW is to provide safe and effective … 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
China Scholarship Council Inks First-of-Its-Kind Agreement with UNC Pharmacy
April 10, 2017The China Scholarship Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to provide financial assistance for Chinese students studying pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In a ceremony at the Carolina Inn on Monday, March 27, representatives of the China Scholarship Council agreed to provide support to Chinese students who are accepted into the Doctor of Pharmacy and the Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences program at the pharmacy school. In 2016, the CSC provided financial assistance to approximately 110,000 Chinese citizens pursuing study abroad and to foreign … Read more
Persky Receives 2017 AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award
April 3, 2017Adam Persky, Ph.D., has been named a recipient of a 2017 Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He will be honored along with one other recipient during the Opening General Session of this year’s AACP Annual Meeting, held July 15–19 in Nashville, Tennessee. Persky is a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He joined the School in 2004, and he served as the director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Pharmacy from 2011 to 2013. Persky has received several prestigious teaching … Read more
Postdoc Elizabeth Wayne Selected as TED Fellow
March 13, 2017Elizabeth Wayne, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in cancer nanotechnology at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a TED fellow and will take the stage to deliver a talk at TED2017 this April in Vancouver. She joins a class of 15 young innovators from four continents and a program that has selected 414 fellows from 87 countries since its inception in 2009. “As a graduate student, I wanted to use my physics training, but I wanted to solve a biological problem,” Wayne said. “The more I learned about cancer, the more I thought an interdisciplinary approach would … Read more
Fiscelli Receives 2016 Smith Staff Award for Excellence
January 18, 2017Kathryn Fiscelli, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2016 Phyllis Smith Staff Award for Excellence at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Fiscelli is the assistant director of research administration here at the School. She works to manage nearly 150 grants and contracts and the 20 to 30 grant applications active at any one time that are handled by the School’s Office of Research Administration. As assistant director, she oversees the activities of five grants managers and reports to Raj Kshatriya, M.B.A., director of business operations and research administration. Her job is defined by the need to multitask and juggle … Read more
Kohn Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
January 6, 2017Harold “Hal” Kohn, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. The NAI Fellows Selection Committee chooses candidates who have demonstrated “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.” One of Kohn’s most significant achievements is the development of a treatment for certain epilepsy patients that received Food and Drug Administration approval in 2008. Lacosamide, a first-in-class antiepileptic drug with the brand name Vimpat, is prescribed … Read more
UNC Catalyst Initiative Aims to Create and Share Tools to Fight Rare Diseases
January 4, 2017Freely giving researchers the tools and knowledge to tackle rare and orphaned diseases is the mission of UNC Catalyst, a new endeavor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launched with a $2 million grant from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation. UNC Catalyst will provide patient groups and rare-disease organizations with the knowledge and research tools to train scientists to create new treatments. “Science has cracked the human genome, but translating that knowledge into new medicines has been painfully slow,” said Bob Blouin, director of the Eshelman institute and dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy. “This is … Read more