Category: Grants and Awards
Craig Lee Receives Grant from American Heart Association
July 17, 2007Craig Lee, PhD, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a $132,000 beginning grant-in-aid from the American Heart Association. Lee will use the two-year grant, titled “P450 Epoxygenase Pathway and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease”, to study the relationship between genetic variation in the cytochrome P450 epoxygenase pathway and mechanisms underlying the risk of cardiovascular disease. Cytochromes P450 are a metabolic enzyme family present throughout the body. The pathway Lee is studying is active in the cardiovascular system and forms epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (also known as EETs), which dilate blood vessels and have anti-inflammatory effects. About ten to twenty-five … Read more
NIH Funds Paine’s Search for a Cranberry Juice Effect
July 17, 2007Mary Paine, PhD, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore interactions between foods and drugs. “We know a great deal about drug-drug interactions but comparatively little about how foods and other natural products interact with drugs,” Paine says. “Typically, the only thing patients are told about food and their medicine is whether or not they should take their pills with a meal.” Paine is interested in foods that can contribute to what has come to be called “the grapefruit juice effect.” Since the early 1990s, researchers have known that chemical compounds in grapefruit … Read more
Morieux Awarded NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
June 20, 2007Pierre Morieux, a graduate student in the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has been awarded an NIH Predococtoral Fellowship. Morieux’s project, “Chemical Probes to Discover the Lacosamide Drug Targets: Synthesis and Evaluation,” was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for up to three years at $27,000 a year. “These awards are highly competitive, and it is a real honor for Pierre and the School to receive this fellowship,” says Harold Kohn, the Kenan Chair in Medicinal Chemistry.
Kashuba, Corbett Honored for Work in Fight against AIDS
June 1, 2007Two professors from the UNC School of Pharmacy—Amanda Corbett and Angela Kashuba—have received the Pam Herriott Award from the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases and the UNC Center for AIDS Research in recognition of their contributions in the fight against AIDS. “They have been devoted partners to our HIV team,” says Charles van der Horst, a professor in the UNC School of Medicine who is a member of the CFID and the director of the Developmental Core at the UNC CFAR. “They always say yes when e-mailed or called, no matter what time or day, always stepping up to the … Read more
Joyner Selected for AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program
June 1, 2007Pamela Joyner, EdD, MS Pharm, the associate dean for professional education at the UNC School of Pharmacy, is one of twenty-nine nominees selected to participate in the 2007-08 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Leadership Fellows Program. The program was developed to address the stated needs of AACP members for an intensive leadership and management development program. It is designed to help promising individuals at member institutions develop into future leaders in pharmacy and in higher education. “This program provides opportunities for more interaction with leaders in pharmacy education and can broaden my understanding of the issues facing both … Read more
Doctoral Student Earns AFPE Fellowship
May 17, 2007Laura Bonifacio, a second-year doctoral student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a $6,000 award from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Bonifacio, who is in Assistant Professor Mike Jarstfer’s lab in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, earned an AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The one-year award, which is given to a maximum of 70 doctoral students annually, is renewable after the first year. The fellowships support the most exceptional doctoral students during the advanced, research phase of their course of study and enable them to focus intensively on industry-oriented subjects, such as … Read more
Four Receive APhA Incentive Grants to Improve Care
May 16, 2007Four pharmacists from the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received incentive grants from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation. Three of the four recipients—John Clark, Daniel Forrister, and Debbie Pruss—are residents in the School’s Community Pharmacy Residency Program, while the fourth, Ron DeVizia, is a preceptor. They each received a $1,000 incentive grant. The APhA incentive grants, which began in 1993, provide pharmacists with seed funding to explore new methods and services to provide better health care. The program also aims to focus pharmacists’ attention on incorporating technology in their practices to … Read more
Two PharmD Students, Mentors Earn Travel Scholarships
May 14, 2007Two students in the UNC School of Pharmacy and their faculty mentors have received travel scholarships to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting and Seminars. Irene La (mentored by Kim Leadon, MEd) and Travis Heath (mentored by Wendy Cox, BCPS) earned the scholarships through the 2007 Walmart Annual Conference Scholarship Program. Fifty-one student-mentor pairs received the honor. Each pair gets a $1,000 scholarship to help cover registration and other meeting expenses for the student and faculty mentor to participate in this year’s AACP annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, from July 14 to 18. La and … Read more
ECSU Partnership Honored by Distance-Learning Group
May 14, 2007The partnership program between the UNC School of Pharmacy and Elizabeth City State University has received an honorable mention in the 2007 North Carolina Distance Learning Association Program Award. The NCDLA is a nonprofit organization that promotes development and application of distance learning in education and training. Award recipients will be recognized at the North Carolina Distance Learning Alliance Conference on May 25 at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Launched in fall 2005, the Elizabeth City State University Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program enrolls ten to fifteen UNC Pharmacy students each year at ECSU. Admission and curriculum requirements are the same … Read more
Hansen, Roth Co-Investigators on Grant
May 14, 2007Two professors from the UNC School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy are co-investigators on a one-year, $140,000 grant from the School of Medicine’s “Investments for the Future” Project. Richard Hansen, PhD, and Mary Roth, PharmD, MHS, will be part of a project that aims to enlist pharmacist intervention to reduce drug therapy problems, such as incorrect usage, in older psychiatric patients. The focus of the project will be to establish a pharmacist-run clinic in psychiatry. The project leader is Lea C. Watson, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. The funding is for pilot … Read more