Category: Grants and Awards
Hathaway Gets $1.5 Million Grant to Study Heterochromatin’s Genetic Role
October 11, 2017Nate Hathaway, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a grant worth more than $1.5 million over five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate the mechanism of HP1-mediated heterochromatin assembly and durability in live cells. “Proper regulation of chromatin, the material that makes up chromosomes, is required for human development,” Hathaway said “Abnormalities or impairment in the regulation of chromatin modification pathways lies at the root of many human cancers.” Hathaway is an assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry and a member of the … Read more
Sleath Receives $1.6 Million AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma
July 11, 2017Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., has received a grant worth nearly $1.6 million over four years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help reduce vision problems in African-Americans caused by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness for African-Americans; they are five times more likely to get glaucoma than white Americans and six times more likely to go blind from it. Glaucoma is a condition that can damage the optic nerve leading to loss of vision. It is caused by abnormally high pressure inside the eye. “We want to empower glaucoma patients to be more actively involved … 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
Pharmacy’s Robert McGinty Named 2017 Searle Scholar
March 31, 2017Robert McGinty, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a 2017 Searle Scholar. He is the first Searle Scholar named at the University of North Carolina in the past 10 years. The Searle Scholars Program named 15 scientists as Searle Scholars for 2017. Recipients are awarded $300,000 in flexible funding to support their work over the next three years. The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the … Read more
UNC to Create and Test Injectable Long-Acting Implant to Prevent HIV Infection
March 27, 2017Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new implantable drug delivery system for long-lasting HIV-prevention. Scientists in the UNC School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are developing an injectable drug delivery system that forms an implant that steadily releases anti-HIV medication over long periods of time. The injectable formulation includes an anti-HIV drug, a polymer and a solvent. The three-compound liquid will solidify once injected under the skin. As the polymer slowly degrades, … Read more
$27 Million in 2015 Research Funding Ranks School Second in Nation
May 17, 2016For the seventh of the last eight years, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy ranks second among the nation’s pharmacy schools in total research funding at nearly $27 million, according to data compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The School had 49 funded investigators who received $26,896,175 in awards from all funding sources in fiscal year 2015. The School’s research funding has more than doubled since 2007, the last time the School was ranked lower than number three. “The growth and strength of our research enterprise reflects our commitment to accelerating needed changes in health care, education … Read more
CBMC Grad Student O’Banion Wins ASBMB Poster Award
May 9, 2016Colin O’Banion, a Ph.D. student in the lab of David Lawrence, Ph.D., at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, was awarded the best poster award in the area of cell signaling, kinase and chemotherapy by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. O’Banion’s poster was selected by the Program Planning Committee at the recent ASBMB meeting in San Diego, California. His presentation, “An Optogenetic Toolkit for Spatial and Temporal Control of the cAMP Dependent Protein Kinase,” was also selected for an ASBMB oral presentation. Originally from Rochester, New York, O’Banion studied neuroscience at the University of Rochester. He then … Read more
K.H. Lee Receives Hong Kong Baptist University Award for Advancing Chinese Medicine
April 22, 2016Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Ph.D., was chosen to receive the Third Cheung On Tak International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Medicine from Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Chinese Medicine. Lee is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and director of the Natural Products Research Laboratories in the School’s Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Cheung On Tak Award is given every two years to scientists and scholars with groundbreaking and internationally recognized achievements in advancing the internationalization of Chinese medicine or … Read more
Monash, UCL, UNC Advance PharmAlliance Partnership
March 10, 2016PharmAlliance, the research, education and practice partnership between three of the world’s most highly regarded schools of pharmacy — Monash University, University College London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — has announced its first round of grant funding. Established in March 2015, PharmAlliance enables the partners to pursue new educational, practice and research collaborations to address major international issues in the fields of drug discovery and development, nanomedicine and nanotechnology development and clinical pharmacology. “Many of the problems we’re facing are too big for one institution on its own to solve. We strongly believe that combining … Read more
Jay Receives University Distinguished Teaching Award
January 27, 2016Michael Jay, Ph.D., Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics, is the 2016 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Postbaccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jay will be recognized along with other recipients during a half-time ceremony at the men’s basketball game against the University of Pittsburgh on Sunday, February 14, in the Dean E. Smith Center. Jay joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2008. He served as director of graduate admissions for the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics until 2012, when he was named division chair. He recently served as the School’s executive vice … Read more