Category: Grants and Awards
Graduate Student in Jarstfer Lab Receives NIH Fellowship
August 5, 2008Daud Cole, a graduate student in Associate Professor Mike Jarstfer’s lab at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. The fellowship is worth $27,481 per year for five years. Cole’s research project, titled “The structure of telomerase RNA during catalysis”, studies the structure of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a key role in cell division and aging. Cole is a 2005 graduate of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology. He is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics … Read more
Ives Receives Grant from DHHS
July 28, 2008Timothy Ives, PharmD, MPH, an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a grant from the Department of Health & Human Services for a study on using clinical pharmacist practitioners to improve care. The grant, titled “A Study to Assess the Impact of a Primary Care Practice Model Utilizing Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners (CPP) to Improve the Care of Medicare-Eligible Populations in North Carolina,” is worth $95,305.
Katie Theken Receives AFPE Fellowship
July 18, 2008Katie Theken, PharmD, a third-year graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education for the 2008-09 academic year. The award provides Theken with a $6,000 annual stipend and is renewable for a total of three years. Theken’s research project is titled “The Role of Cytochrome P450-Mediated Eicosanoid Metabolism in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.” Cytochrome P450 are a metabolic enzyme family that is present throughout the body. Theken is studying the cytochrome P450 pathways responsible for forming epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) and 20-hydroxyeicosateraenoic acid (20-HETE). “EETs dilate blood vessels and … Read more
Mary Carroll Receives ACS, AFPE Fellowships
July 11, 2008Mary Carroll, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received two fellowships for the 2008-09 academic year. The American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship selection committee named Carroll its Pfizer Fellow. The fellowship, a nationally competitive award, provides a one-year stipend of $24,000. Carroll will be invited to give a presentation on her research at the fall 2009 national meeting in Washington, D.C., as part of a symposium honoring her and the other fellows. She will receive a plaque and $1,000 to help cover travel and meeting expenses. Carroll also has been awarded a … Read more
School Recognized for Its Efforts to Increase Diversity
July 7, 2008The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program has recognized the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy with the Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award for the School’s efforts to increase the diversity of its student population and the health-care workforce. The NC-HCAP is an interinstitutional program of the UNC system designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students who are educated, trained, and employed in the health professions. The Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award recognizes individuals or entities that have proactively sought out and implemented strategies to increase underrepresented minorities in a health science discipline and/or who have worked … Read more
Laura Bonifacio Earns AFAR-GSK Fellowship
June 14, 2008Laura Bonifacio, PharmD, a third-year graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an American Foundation for Aging Research-GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. The award is worth $2,000 and is potentially renewable. It will fund Bonifacio’s research project, which is involved in discovering the physiological mechanisms of aging. “Aging is interesting and poorly understood,” Bonifacio says. “We are looking for new cellular agents that are involved in controlling the aging process or that are controlled by the aging process. This will allow a richer understanding of aging and lead to new ways to control it … Read more
School, Mission Hospital win AACP Crystal APPLE
June 4, 2008The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a prestigious national award recognizing the high quality of an experiential education rotation at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. The Crystal APPLE Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy recognizes the contributions pharmacy schools and their practice partners make in successfully conducting and supporting quality experiential education in settings focusing on patient care. “The Crystal APPLE Awards are the most coveted academic-practice partnership award in pharmacy education,” says Lucinda L. Maine, AACP executive vice president and CEO. “With an increasing number … Read more
School Names Preceptors of the Year
June 1, 2008The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named the recipients of its 2008 preceptors and Area Health Education Center instructor of the year honors. Jennifer Askew, CPP, manager of outpatient/employee pharmacy services for New Hanover Health Network in Wilmington, has been named a Hospital Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year. Suzie Cala Harris, BCPP, a clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, has been named AHEC Faculty Instructor of the Year. Jane Wyatt Maney, owner of Jane’s Rx Drugs in Mars Hill, has been named Community Pharmacy Preceptor … Read more
Emekalam Receives Bernstein Fellowship
May 29, 2008Anthony Emekalam, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a Jim Bernstein Community Health Leadership Fellow. Emekalam will receive a two-year fellowship with at least $3,000 in funding. The fellowship program aims to develop future leaders to work in and improve the health of rural and other underserved communities and populations in North Carolina. The fellowships are individually tailored to work in concert with the fellow’s current work. Fellows are paired with mentors and will interact with health care leaders and work with various state agencies, university programs, nonprofit organizations, and … Read more
2008 School of Pharmacy Awards
May 15, 2008The UNC School of Pharmacy held its annual awards banquet on May 2 at the Rizzo Conference Center. Student Academic Awards Outstanding Pharmacy Student Award Brian Cameron Alexander, Lauren Ashley Brogdon, Vi Thuy Do, Heather Isley Edmonds, Ninh My La, Margaret McCarley Lowe, Wesley Andrew McCall, Bridgette Louise Therriault The faculty recognize graduating students who have attained the highest measure of scholastic achievement in the professional program. GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Care Award Mary Lamberth Bennett The faculty recognize an outstanding student for excellent performance during his or her pharmacy clerkships with special emphasis on patient relations in both health-system and community … Read more