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UNC-Chapel Hill Pharmacy research scientist receives funding to develop new lung cancer immunotherapy method
December 21, 2022Limei Shen, a research scientist at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, received the 2022 Vicky Amidon Innovation Grant in Lung Cancer Research award. This grant provides funding for her project which develops a new immunotherapy method to treat lung cancer patients. The Lung Cancer Initiative is providing funding for this project for $25,000 starting next year. Shen is a research scientist in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics (DPMP). Her research is focused on cancer immunotherapy, a topic she has been working on since her Ph.D. project. In her early studies, Shen saw … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Pharmacy Professor Denise Rhoney named Master of Critical Care Medicine
December 19, 2022Denise H. Rhoney, Pharm.D., FCCP, FCCM, FNCS, a Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will be named a Master of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) in January 2023. According to the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the designation of MCCM is based upon Rhoney’s status as a long-standing Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. The SCCM says the distinction reflects her achievements as a prominent and distinguished leader of national and international stature, personal character, leadership, eminence in … Read more
CIPhER and Deraya University form historic partnership to advance education
December 14, 2022Faculty members from Deraya University participated in training programs offered by the School’s Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Education and Research (CIPhER) to promote the development of their teaching skills. This is part of a partnership between the Egyptian university and CIPhER that was established in 2021. Deraya faculty participated in CIPhER’s Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC) Program, Evidence-based Pedagogy in Pharmacy Education workshop, and various teaching and learning seminars. TLC, for example, is an online intensive program focused on improving the use of evidence-based teaching and learning practices, such as active learning and formative assessment. Deraya University is one … Read more
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Sets New Standard with Online Master’s Program
December 12, 2022The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has launched the Master of Professional Science (MPS) in Regulatory Science, a one-of-a-kind program designed to impart on students a dynamic regulatory science skill set that is in hot demand by employers in the health care industry. As the top school of pharmacy in the U.S., the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy understands the critical need for highly trained regulatory science professionals who bring value to product safety, efficacy, and quality to confront the new global health care challenges that appear virtually every day in today’s world. “This program is the result of collaboration … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Pharmacy professor receives funding to upgrade school’s NMR probe
December 7, 2022The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted Professor Andrew Lee, Ph.D., in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, funding to upgrade the school’s workhorse NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) instrument. The NIH is providing approximately $600,000 towards upgrading this piece of equipment with a cryoprobe. A cryoprobe is an NMR probe that is cryogenically cooled resulting in a large boost in sensitivity for the instrument. The cryoprobe is becoming the standard for NMR instruments in academics and industry, allowing chemists more precision and accuracy when examining small molecules. “We pursued this grant because our workhorse NMR instrument in the School’s … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Pharmacy alumna, team, awarded ASHP Literature Award for drug shortage project
December 5, 2022The ASHP Foundation has awarded UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy alumna Ina Liu, PharmD, MS, BCPS, and her team the Literature Award for Pharmacy Practice Research for their project, “Development and validation of a predictive model to predict and manage drug shortages.” Liu’s team is made up of Ashley Pappas, PharmD, MHA; Casey Tak, PhD, MPH; Evan Colmenares, PharmD; Mary-Haston Vest, PharmD, MS, BCPS; Maryann Oertel, PharmD, BCPS; and Hank Clark, PharmD, MS. They were formally recognized on December 4 at the ASHP 2022 Midyear Clinical Meeting for their work. “Receiving this award means so much to me, not only … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill, Eshelman Institute for Innovation collaborate with AWS to launch health research startups
November 30, 2022The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build an environment for startup creation that uses cloud technology to translate UNC-Chapel Hill digital health research expertise into commercialized solutions. The collaboration will support 25 projects over 3 years, with the goal of creating, funding, and building 10 successful start-up companies based out of UNC-Chapel Hill. The focus is software-forward digital technologies to advance health and wellness, enhance patient and provider experience, and improve healthcare access across five areas: … Read more
UNC Chapel-Hill pharmacy students chosen to present research at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
November 30, 2022A select group of UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy students are preparing to present their research at this year’s American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting. Forty-seven student-led research projects from the school of pharmacy were chosen for poster presentations at the Midyear meeting in Las Vegas. Each project includes a primary author and up to four co-authors, representing faculty and preceptor mentors as well as other faculty, staff and student collaborators. These posters cover a variety of topics such as identifying and removing substandard and falsified medicines in South Africa, the willingness of pharmacists to sell … Read more
A Personal Appreciation for Rural Health Practice
November 30, 2022Zach Richardson, PharmD candidate ’25, discusses his Haliwa-Saponi culture and how it pushes him to excel as a Rural Health Scholar Zach Richardson’s easy smile spreads across his face as he holds up the necklace he’s wearing. It is a tightly-packed line of dried corn kernels in various shades of yellow. “The corn necklaces are very important to the Haliwa-Saponi people,” he explains. “In 1968, the Haliwa school closed down, forcing native students to go to separate public schools. They were given corn necklaces to represent their togetherness spiritually even though they weren’t together physically, and to remind them of … Read more
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy receives grant from the McKesson Foundation to help close diversity gap and improve health outcomes
November 28, 2022The funding will support diversity and rural care programs at the school and throughout North Carolina. To help increase the diversity of the pharmacy workforce and improve overall health outcomes for vulnerable populations, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has announced two grants of more than $1.5 million over three years from the McKesson Foundation. The donations support the creation of two programs to strengthen diversity at the school and to improve access and care for patients in rural and underserved areas of North Carolina. “The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy decided many years ago to make diversifying our … Read more