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UNC Researchers Awarded $11.3 Million for Cancer Nanotechnology Research
September 14, 2015University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers received an $11.3 million, five-year grant to conduct multiple studies exploring the use of nanoparticles to create cancer vaccines and improve cancer drug delivery and responses. The grant is the third in a series of awards that the university has received from the National Cancer Institute for cancer nanotechnology research. It will fund work by researchers with the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, an NCI-funded collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. “UNC-Chapel Hill has emerged as a leader in nanotechnology in the last 10 years,” said … Read more
Four MOPH Graduate Students Receive NIH and NSF Fellowships
September 10, 2015Four graduate students in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics have been awarded fellowships by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Karen Bulaklak received an NIH F31 Fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Carla Coste Sanchez, Christina Parker and Tojan Rahhal have all been awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. “Securing an external fellowship of any kind is a tremendous accomplishment as they are very competitive in nature and bring prestige to the student researcher, their faculty and the School,” says … Read more
Tom Angelo Joins School to Support Educational Research and Innovation
August 25, 2015Thomas Angelo, Ed.D., has been appointed as a clinical professor of educational innovation and research in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and director of educator development in the Academy. In this dual appointment, Angelo will develop hands-on workshops and other resources to support the School’s reengineered Pharm.D. curriculum, as well as coteaching some courses. He will also collaborate on educational research and assessment projects and mentor junior faculty, fellows and graduate students. “The hiring of Dr. Angelo serves as a prominent symbol of the School’s commitment to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in student learning,” said … Read more
Amber Proctor Joins School in First DPET Position Shared with UNC Hospitals
August 24, 2015Amber Proctor, Pharm.D., has joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as one of the newest members of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapy. Proctor’s appointment is cofunded by UNC Hospitals, where she will also act as a clinical oncology specialist in thoracic oncology. Proctor began her appointment on August 1, 2015, after completing a PGY2 hematology and oncology pharmacy specialty residency at UNC Hospitals in June. “I am thrilled that Amber Proctor is DPET’s first shared position with the UNC Medical Center,” said Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., DPET chair and John and Deborah McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor. “She will … Read more
$2.4 Million NIH Grant to Support Study of Tumor Penetration by Nanogel
August 10, 2015UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy nanomedicine researchers received a five-year grant to study whether the properties of certain nanomaterials would improve the delivery of cancer treatments to their tumor targets. The $2.42 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a collaborative research effort between scientists at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as well as at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The researchers plan to study whether the use of a drug-carrying nanoparticle material they’ve designed called the core-shell nanogel can better penetrate tumors. “The whole idea of this … Read more
Jeffrey Aubé Joins Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
August 3, 2015Jeffrey Aubé, PhD, has traded Kansas blue for Carolina blue and joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor in the School’s Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. “Jeff Aubé is an extraordinarily accomplished scientist with an international reputation for conducting ground-breaking research,” says Dean Bob Blouin, Pharm.D. “He is an outstanding educator, a consensus builder and a charismatic leader in the professional world of the pharmaceutical sciences.” Aubé’s research program in organic chemistry encompasses organic synthesis methodology and natural product total synthesis focusing on alkaloids. One of his group’s signature accomplishments is the … Read more
School Receives T32 Grant for Training Program in Cancer Nanotechnology
July 13, 2015A federal grant awarded to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will help grow the workforce of scientists and doctors working in cancer nanotechnology through the launch of a new postdoctoral training program. The University has received a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a postdoctoral training program within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery researchers. The program will be run in collaboration with the Carolina Institute for Nanomedicine, the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The award, a … Read more
Peter Koval Wins Cone Health Award for Role as Educator
July 2, 2015Peter Koval, PharmD has received this year’s Teaching Award from the 2015 graduating class of the Cone Health Family Medicine Physician Residency Program at Cone Health in Greensboro, N.C. Koval is an associate professor of clinical education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the director of pharmacotherapy at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center. His clinical pharmacy position is in collaboration with the Greensboro AHEC and the Cone Health Family Medicine Center. This award is given annually to family medicine faculty for their contribution to the overall education of the graduating class. Koval is the first non-physician to … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation Launches
June 2, 2015The Eshelman Institute for Innovation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — created by a historic $100 million gift to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in December — has officially launched. The Eshelman Institute aims to inspire a culture of innovation where imagination and creative solutions accelerate change in education, research and health care. The institute provides a mechanism for faculty, staff, and students to seek funding for bold ideas and also provides opportunities to educate and train students and postdoctoral fellows; foster collaboration, creativity, and innovation; and stimulate commercialization of intellectual property and entrepreneurial development. The institute … Read more
Tropsha Assumes New Role as Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics
May 14, 2015Alexander Tropsha, PhD, has been named as the first associate dean for pharmacoinformatics and data science at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and will serve as the School’s chief informatics officer providing oversight and strategic direction for research and training programs in data-rich areas of pharmaceutical sciences. Tropsha is the K. H. Lee Distinguished Professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. He is an expert in the fields of computational chemistry, cheminformatics, and structural bioinformatics and works to develop new methodologies and software tools for computer-assisted drug design. His particular expertise lies in the field of … Read more