Category: Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
CROI Selects Abstracts by School of Pharmacy Fellows
December 14, 2005Abstracts by academic fellow Julie Dumond and GlaxoSmithKline fellow Manoli Vourvahis have been accepted at the 13th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Dumond and Vourvahis have each received a Young Investigator Award to attend the conference in February. Dumond’s abstract “First Dose and Steady-state Genital Tract Pharmacokinetics of Ten Antiretroviral Drugs in HIV-infected Women: Implications for Pre- and Post- Exposure Prophylaxis” was accepted as an oral presentation. Vourvahis’ abstract “A Pharmacologic Basis for the Use of Tenofovir In Pre- and Post-exposure Prophylaxis: Intra- and Extracellular Genital Tract Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics from First Dose to Steady State in HIV-1 … Read more
Lee Wins Barrett-Connor Research Award
November 16, 2005Craig Lee, a graduate student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, has won the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award in Epidemiology for his presentation, “Genetic Variation in Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: An Atherosclerosis in Communities Study.” The Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award recognizes excellence in research by an investigator in training. Finalists are chosen from early career investigators whose abstracts are submitted to the epidemiology and prevention categories and are chosen for presentation at the AHA Scientific Sessions.