Category: Grants and Awards
Persky Named ACSM Fellow
May 1, 2008Adam Persky, PhD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been named a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Persky, who is in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, will be inducted into the fellowship program during the ACSM’s national meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 28-31. He will also deliver a tutorial lecture at the conference on May 29 about drug interactions with nutrients, supplements and exercise. The ACSM Fellowship program recognizes professional achievement and competence in the related disciplines of sports medicine through education, published works, and professional practice, as well … Read more
Roth Receives Grant from NARSAD
April 29, 2008Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a Distinguished Investigators Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the largest donor-supported organization in the world that supports research on brain and behavior disorders. NARSAD awarded eleven Distinguished Investigators grants this year from a pool of 160 applicants. The one-year, $100,000 grants will support research with the greatest potential to lead the field forward in its understanding and treatment of serious mental illness. Roth is using new methodology recently invented in his lab to create mice with specially engineered characteristics, with … Read more
Huang Receives More than $3 Million in NIH Funding
April 17, 2008Leaf Huang, PhD, a Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health, each worth more than $1.5 million over five years, to support cancer-therapy research. Huang, who chairs the School’s Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, is an expert in designing new methods of drug delivery that could make gene therapy an effective weapon in the fight against cancer. One of his new grants will support the development of cancer therapy using LPD nanoparticles, a novel vector that Huang’s lab created. LPD nanoparticles are consisted of lipid, polycations (molecules with … Read more
Lee Receives NIH Grant for Collaboration with Singleton
April 8, 2008Andrew Lee, PhD, an associate professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a collaboration with fellow School faculty Scott Singleton, PhD, to study at how protein motions affect function and inhibition in the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase. The grant is titled “Intra- and Intermolecular Dynamics of Dihydrofolate Reductase” and is worth more than $1 million over four years. “Proteins are dynamic molecules, and this aspect often contributes to their function in binding ligands and catalyzing reactions,” Lee says. “However, the traditional methods used to determine molecular structures don’t directly report … Read more
Farrington Named ACCM Fellow
March 24, 2008Elizabeth Farrington, PharmD, FCCM, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Farrington has been a clinical specialist in pediatrics at UNC Hospitals since 1994. She is also a lecturer, course coordinator, and preceptor for PharmD students at the School. The ACCM is part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, an organization that aims to foster the highest goals of multiprofessional critical care. The fellowship is given to members of SCCM who have demonstrated dedication to the collaborative practice model of critical care; … Read more
McLeod to Deliver Abrams Lecture
March 20, 2008Howard McLeod, PharmD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy and the director of the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, has been selected to deliver the 2008 Dr. William B. Abrams Lecture, becoming the first PharmD scientist to receive that honor in the ten-year history of the lecture series. The lecture, cosponsored by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Food and Drug Administration/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, will be held at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Wednesday, April 30, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. McLeod’s lecture is titled “Personalized … Read more
DPET Fellow Kevin Brown Earns Rho Chi Scholarship
March 6, 2008Kevin Brown, PharmD, an Academic HIV Pharmacology Fellow at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as the recipient of the Rho Chi Research Scholarship. Brown will receive the award during the Rho Chi Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 16, in San Diego, California. He will receive $7,500 to be used for fellowship funding or research costs during the second year of his fellowship. Rho Chi will also reimburse up to $500 of expenses incurred for attending the annual meeting. The scholarship was established in 2003, and only one is awarded each year to a member of the Rho … Read more
School Rises to Sixth in NIH Funding
March 1, 2008The UNC School of Pharmacy climbed to sixth among the nation’s pharmacy schools in funding received from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2007, up two spots from last year, according to numbers compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The School’s researchers were awarded more than $9.1 million in the past year, $900,000 more than the 2006 total of nearly $8.2 million. The School ranked eighth in NIH funding last year. This is the seventh year in a row that the School has advanced in the rankings. The School also ranked second in funding received … Read more
Gal to Receive Helms Award
February 26, 2008Peter Gal, PharmD, a clinical professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Richard A. Helms Award for Excellence in Pediatric Pharmacy Practice. Gal, who is the director of pharmacotherapy, education and research at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center, will receive the award at the 17th Annual Pediatric Pharmacy Conference and PPAG Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 4. Gal has received numerous honors since becoming a pharmacist at the Greensboro AHEC and a clinical assistant professor at the School in 1979. He has been practicing neonatal pharmacotherapy since 1977 … Read more
AHEC Faculty Receives Fellowship to Study Virtual Patient Approach
February 21, 2008Peter Koval, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a John Payne Fellow. The fellowship comes with a $2,000 stipend for Koval’s project: studying the use of virtual patients in training pharmacy students. Koval, a clinical pharmacist at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, is the assistant director of pharmacy research, pharmacotherapy, and education at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center. He is planning to use his fellowship to learn how the School of Pharmacy at Keele University in the United Kingdom uses robotic avatars and voice-recognition software to create virtual patients … Read more