Category: Grants and Awards
Rodgers Elected to National Academies of Practice
February 16, 2012Clinical associate professor Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, has been elected as a distinguished practitioner and fellow in the National Academies of Practice in the Pharmacy Academy. Rodgers is a faculty member in the School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and associate director of the division’s clinical fellowship programs. She is also a clinical pharmacist in the Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Transplantation Service at UNC Hospitals, where she directs the PGY2 residency in cardiology. Rodgers currently serves on the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Board of Regents and the Board of Pharmacy Specialties Pharmacotherapy Specialty Council. She is a fellow of … Read more
Emekalam Receives Subgrant to Fight Diabetes
February 14, 2012Clinical assistant professor Anthony Emekalam, PharmD, has received a $20,000 subgrant from the Centers for Disease Control to support a pilot program for diabetes prevention and management care. The subgrant comes from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing’s REACH US: SEA-CEED program. It will fund Steps of Faith, a project that recruits local ministers to help persuade members of the black community to get more diabetes screenings, exercise more, and switch to healthier diets. The program will focus on heads of households or leaders of families with a history that puts them at risk for diabetes or … Read more
Ming Receives Grant to Study Therapy for Renal Fibrosis
November 28, 2011Xin Ming, PhD, a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an NC TraC$50K Pilot Grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute to support his research on using targeted siRNA therapy to treat renal fibrosis. The one-year grant will provide $50,000 to support Ming’s study of a therapy targeting αvβ6 integrin receptors that play a crucial role in fibrogenesis, the formation of scar tissues in an organ. Ming, a faculty member in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, will use this study to generate preliminary data to apply for an R01 grant from … Read more
UNC Gets $100,000 Grant to Commercialize Huang, Kohn Inventions
September 30, 2011The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $100,000 from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to advance the commercial development of technologies created by UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy scientists Leaf Huang, PhD, and Hal Kohn, PhD. Technology transfer officials at three University of North Carolina System campuses are dividing $250,000 to advance the commercial development of discoveries made at their universities. Technology Enhancement Grants of $50,000 each will support the advancement of five inventions with significant market potential. At UNC-Chapel Hill, Henry Nowack and Jackie Quay, PhD, both assistant directors of the Office of Technology Development, are recipients … Read more
Pharmacy and Medicine Collaborate on $3 Million NIAID HIV Prevention Project
July 28, 2011Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have been awarded a $3 million federal grant to develop and test a new generation of treatments aimed at preventing sexual transmission of HIV to uninfected individuals. This remains the most common cause of HIV infection worldwide. The new NIAID award is entitled Next Generation Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP. “This project combines the strengths of four outstanding investigators with highly complementary skills, at UNC and our industrial partner, Merck,” said J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD, the project’s principal investigator and professor of medicine, and a member of UNC’s Center … Read more
Photos: Hospital, School Honor Fred Eckel
June 30, 2011UNC Hospitals and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy honored professor Fred Eckel, MS, on June 28 at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center during a reception to recognize the 2011 class of pharmacy residents for completing their residencies. Eckel, a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education, joined the School in 1966 and established the UNC Hospital Residency Program in 1967. To honor his accomplishments, the residency program presented Eckel with a newly established Pharmacy Leadership Award bearing his name. Eckel also delivered a lecture on lessons he learned over the course of his career. … Read more
K. H. Lee Receives Rising Sun Award from Japan
June 20, 2011Kuo-Hsiung Lee, PhD, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the government of Japan for his contributions to the development of medicinal chemistry in that nation. In his forty-one-year career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, more than eighty Japanese scholars have honed their understanding of medicinal chemistry under Dr. Lee’s tutelage. The Order of the Rising Sun was established in 1875 as the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese Government. It is presented … Read more
Graduate Student Schuck Receives AHA Fellowship
June 16, 2011Bob Schuck, PharmD, a doctoral student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to support his search for new treatments for vascular inflammation and cardiovascular disease. The two-year fellowship will provide $23,000 per year for Schuck to study eicosanoids, signaling molecules that are metabolized by various enzyme pathways. Eicosanoids control inflammation, which plays an integral role in the development of numerous diseases and conditions, including cardiovascular disease. Schuck is tackling the topic with a two-pronged approach — finding new treatments and identifying people who are most likely to benefit from … Read more
Doctoral Student Pempe Receives Fellowship from American Heart Association
June 9, 2011Liz Pempe, a doctoral student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has won a predoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association to support her study of the blood-thinner heparin. The fellowship will provide $23,000 per year for two years to support Pempe’s research to determine which structural features of the heparin molecule control the drug’s half-life — the rate at which the drug is eliminated from the body. Heparin is the world’s most widely used anticoagulant drug, with annual sales estimated at $3 billion. It is used for a variety of applications, such as preventing clotting during surgery, … Read more
NACDS Grant to Fund New PGY1 Residency Site in Asheville
May 29, 2011The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has received a $50,000 grant from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation to establish a new community pharmacy residency site in Asheville, North Carolina. The grant comes via the NACDS’s Community Pharmacy Residency Expansion Project, a $1.5 million program established in 2010 that seeks to create thirty new, fully accredited post-graduate year-one (PGY1) community pharmacy residencies through grants to nonprofit schools and colleges of pharmacy. Grant recipients are determined based on the recommendations of an independent-review committee comprised of representatives from the American Association of College of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association, and the … Read more