Category: Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Amanda Corbett Appointed Assistant Dean of Professional Curriculum
August 27, 2018Amanda Corbett, Pharm.D., has been appointed assistant dean for the professional curriculum of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Corbett is a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and serves as the associate director of global engagement at the School. She is also a clinical associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine and global pharmacology coordinator for the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. As assistant dean, Corbett will work with the faculty and students to implement educational innovation into the professional curriculum and integrate it with the School’s residential, experiential, global … Read more
Eshelman Institute Awards $3.5 Million in June 2018 Funding Round
June 20, 2018The Eshelman Institute for Innovation on June 1 funded projects proposed by 25 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy faculty and staff members totaling more than $3.5 million. The Eshelman Institute was created by a $100 million gift from alumnus, philanthropist and pharmaceutical executive Fred Eshelman, Pharm.D., to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in December 2014. The institute aims to inspire a culture of innovation where imagination and creative solutions accelerate change in education, research and health care. The Eshelman Institute has awarded more than $20.8 million since 2015. Awards are divided into three funding tiers: tier 1 projects are funded up to $50,000, … Read more
GPS Program Brings London Student to UNC for Research Experience
June 4, 2018Li Xian Ng, a student at the University College London School of Pharmacy, came to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy for a three-month research rotation as part of the School’s Global Pharmacy Scholars program. The exchange program allows students from UCL to travel to North Carolina to work with professors at the School and sends UNC pharmacy students to London for research there. Ng worked in the lab of Gauri Rao, Pharm.D., M.S., studying pharmacokinetic modeling and antibiotic dose optimization. Rao is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. “Dr. Rao was a great help … Read more
Researchers Discover Compound with Potential to Stop Cancer Metastasis
May 21, 2018A UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy scientist is a leader in a large research collaboration that has discovered a new compound that suppressed the spread of cancer — a process known as metastasis — in three different animal models of human cancer. When cancer metastasizes, it spreads from its starting point to a different part of the body. The new compound created by the research team and named metarrestin significantly inhibited metastasis in human breast cancer, human prostate cancer and human pancreatic cancer that had been grafted into mice. Mice treated with the compound had fewer metastatic tumors in the … Read more
Olivia Dong Honored with P.E.O. Scholar Award
May 16, 2018Olivia Dong, a doctoral candidate in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of a $15,000 Scholar Award from the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood for the 2018-19 academic year. Dong is one of the 100 recipients out of 741 nominees selected to receive a P.E.O Scholar Award, which provides merit-based funding for women in the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university. Chapter CN of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, sponsored her. Under the guidance of her research adviser, Tim … Read more
Jo Ellen Rodgers Promoted to Full Professor
April 30, 2018Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., an expert in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy, has been promoted to the rank of clinical professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. “Dr. Rodgers is an outstanding educator and practitioner role model for our students, a dedicated faculty member and an emerging leader in pharmacy,” said Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., chair of DPET and the John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor. “This promotion is well deserved recognition for the many teaching, research, and service contributions she has made to our students, our School and the profession.” Rodgers … Read more
Asher Prince Honored as Physician Assistant Fellow
April 20, 2018Heather Asher Prince has been named a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Asher Prince is director of clinical operations for Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory in the Division of Pharmacy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Distinguished fellows are physician assistants who have demonstrated outstanding dedication to their profession in the following areas: Distinction in medical practice, education, research or health-care management Leadership in medicine and health care Professional involvement Commitment to lifelong learning Community service The UNC Physician Assistants Program published a Q&A interview with Asher Prince. “Heather has been … Read more
Postdoc Gilliland Receives Spectroscopy Career Development Award
April 11, 2018Mac Gilliland, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected for the 2018 Postdoctoral Career Development Award from the American Society of Mass Spectroscopy. Gilliland is a member of the lab of Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., the John and Deborah McNeill, Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. He joined the Kashuba lab in May 2017 as a postdoctoral research associate and works under the direction of Research Associate Professor Eli Rosen, Ph.D., who is focused on developing a novel mass spectroscopy imaging technique called infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption … Read more
Brouwer Selected to Give 2018 ASCPT-FDA Abrams Lecture
April 9, 2018Kim. L. R. Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D., will be honored by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics as the recipient of the 2018 ASCPT and US Food and Drug Administration William B. Abrams Lecture Award. Brouwer is the associate dean for research and graduate education and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The William B. Abrams Lecture is a joint educational initiative of ASCPT and the FDA. The lecture series, supported in part by the Merck Company Foundation, was established in 1999 to honor William B. Abrams, M.D., an ASCPT president … Read more
Gerhart Receives 2018 ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award
April 5, 2018Jacqueline “Jackie” Gerhart, M.S., a first-year doctoral student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, has received the 2018 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award. The $500 award recognizes the top-scoring abstracts that were submitted by students and trainees to the ASCPT 2018 conference. Gerhart is working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Daniel Gonzalez, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Her research involves using plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples obtained from infants to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for testing of fluconazole. Fluconazole is an antifungal drug commonly used in neonatal intensive care units for both treatment … Read more