Category: Grants and Awards
Innocenti Receives R21 Grant to Personalize Angiogenesis Inhibitors to Individual Cancer Patients
August 20, 2014Federico Innocenti receives a $275,000 NCI grant to study the role a cancer patient’s genetic makeup plays in the effectiveness of angiogenesis inhibitors. Angiogenesis inhibitors stop or slow the spread of tumors by choking off the blood supply that feeds them. Angiogenesis inhibitors are a class of drugs commonly used in cancer therapy. However, there isn’t a way to identify patients who will benefit the most from treatment with these drugs. A new $275,000 grant could help Associate Professor Federico Innocenti, MD, PhD, and his team identify such patients based on their genetic profile. Angiogenesis is the formation of new … Read more
Bowers Awarded $750,000 Beckman Young Investigator Award
August 14, 2014Albert Bowers, PhD, is the recipient of a 2014 Beckman Young Investigator Award, a four-year, $750,000 award that recognizes the nation’s most innovative young scientists. Bowers is an assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. Bowers is one of only seven recipients nationwide selected across all disciplines of science for this prestigious award. He says his goal for this grant is to use the chemistry encoded in bacterial genomes to access to new therapeutics more quickly by genetically manipulating biosynthetic pathways within the bacteria themselves to make new pharmaceutically relevant compounds. The Arnold and Mable Beckman … Read more
Henry and Tracey Smith, PY3 Peeden Win 2014 Burrus Community Service Awards
April 15, 2014Third-year student Emily Dare Peedin and alumnus Henry Smith and his wife, Tracey Smith, are the winners of the 2014 Samuel Burrus Award for Community Service given by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The awards were announced at the School’s annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday, April 13, at the Rizzo Center. The School thanks Rite Aid (silver sponsor) and Kroger (bronze sponsor) for their support of the event. This award is presented to members of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy family who exhibit outstanding and unselfish civic, community, or church volunteer service provided outside the scope of regular pharmacy … Read more
Gray Hutchison Recognized with Distinguished Service Award
April 15, 2014H. Gray Hutchison, Jr. received the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Distinguished Service Award at the School’s annual Awards Ceremony held Sunday, April 13, at the Rizzo Center. The School thanks Rite Aid (silver sponsor) and Kroger (bronze sponsor) for their support of the event. Hutchison is currently special counsel with Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP in Raleigh with a practice focus on the tax and fiduciary aspects of employee benefits. Hutchison received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1970 and a law degree in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hutchison has served … Read more
School Presents 2014 Honors at Awards Ceremony
April 14, 2014The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday, April 13, at the Rizzo Center. The School thanks Rite Aid (silver sponsor) and Kroger (bronze sponsor) for their support of the event. Gray Hutchison Jr., a Raleigh attorney and member of the board of the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina, received the School’s Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to an exceptional supporter of the School’s service and outreach initiatives whose accomplishments and contributions have enhanced the School and the profession of pharmacy at the local, state, national, or international level. (READ MORE) Third-year student Emily … Read more
Photos: Awards Ceremony 2014
April 13, 2014The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Foundation administers and funds awards to recognize the achievements of professional students, graduate students, and alumni each year. The 2014 awards ceremony was held on Sunday, April 13, at the Rizzo Center. The School presented 11 academic and professional awards, 6 activities and service awards, 6 teaching awards, and 2 special recognition awards. Read more about the event here. https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157643946472755/show
2014 APhA-ASP Recap: CAPS Takes Chapter of the Year, More
April 10, 2014More than forty students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy attended the 2014 APhA Annual Meeting held March 27–31 in Orlando, Florida. The group included fourteen students from the School’s Asheville campus. The Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students received the 2012–2013 APhA-ASP Chapter of the Year Award. CAPS is the School’s chapter of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists. The award is the highest honor an APhA-ASP chapter can receive. Macary Marciniak, PharmD, serves as the group’s adviser along with Dennis Williams, PharmD, and Phil Rodgers, PharmD. CAPS is also supported by two new practitioner mentors, – … Read more
UNC Team Receives NIH Grant for Tuberculosis Research
February 27, 2014Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for research aimed at developing novel tuberculosis drugs. The grant will provide more than $417,000 over two years to support a collaboration between principal investigators Miriam Braunstein, PhD, and William Janzen. Braunstein is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine. Janzen is the director of assay development and compound profiling at the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Tuberculosis … Read more
Residents Culpepper, Frye Receive APhA Foundation Grants
February 3, 2014Two community pharmacy residents at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have received $1,000 Incentive Grants from the American Pharmacists Association Foundation to support their research projects. The grants provide seed money to help pharmacists implement or support innovative patient-care services within their pharmacy practice. The School’s 2014 recipients are Ben Culpepper, PharmD, and Charlie Frye, PharmD. Culpepper is a resident in the School’s PGY2 community pharmacy residency program. He received his doctor of pharmacy from the South Carolina College of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 community pharmacy residency through the University of Georgia before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill. For … Read more
Lauffenburger Receives Award for School’s Top PhD Student
January 29, 2014Julie Lauffenburger, PharmD, a graduate student in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, is the 2013 recipient of the Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Student Research Award. The award recognizes the most outstanding student in the School’s PhD in pharmaceutical sciences program each year. The winner receives a plaque and a $1,500 grant that can be used to fund research, travel to another institution to develop new research skills, or attend a national scientific meeting where the student will present his or her dissertation work. Lauffenburger, who earned her PharmD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, is in her … Read more