Category: Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Mosedale Receives Sternfels Prize for Proposal to Better Predict Liver-Injury Risk
March 9, 2017Merrie Mosedale, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the $35,000 Sternfels Prize for Drug Safety Innovation for her proposal to find a molecular “fingerprint” to help identify people at risk for idiosyncratic, or unexplained, adverse drug reactions. Mosedale is a member of the UNC Institute for Drug Safety Sciences. The Sternfels Prize was created to encourage researchers to find ways to make using pharmaceuticals less risky. It is awarded to the most important and testable idea to reduce life-threatening drug-drug, drug-disease or pharmacogenomic interactions. Mosedale’s research focuses on drug-induced liver injury, … Read more
Associate Professor, Former Vice Dean Publish Pharmacokinetics Textbook
February 3, 2017Award-winning current and former faculty members of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy recently published a textbook on the concepts of pharmacokinetics. Adam Persky, Ph.D., is a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Gary Pollack, Ph.D., the first vice dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is currently the dean of the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University. Both recipients of prestigious teaching awards, including Best Overall Instructor at the School, Persky and Pollack offer their perspectives on the concepts and important questions of pharmacokinetics … Read more
Research Tech Paints with Purpose to Brighten NC Children’s Hospital
December 16, 2016Rachel Howard, a research technician at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is blanketing the North Carolina Children’s Hospital with holiday spirit one window at a time. Howard is painting wintry scenes for children at NC Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill. She calls her project Paint with Purpose and plans to decorate 72 windows in the hospital, which include all the individual children’s rooms on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors along with the pediatric playroom. “It’s been very interactive,” Howard said. “I have enjoyed taking requests from the kids, and sometimes they, too, like to grab a brush and … Read more
Simple Genetic Test Promises Better Outcomes in Heart Stent Patients
November 15, 2016Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that a quick, precise genetic test can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular events by helping to identify a more effective medication for some heart patients who receive a stent. The test identifies a genetic deficiency that affects the body’s ability to activate clopidogrel, a common anti-clotting drug given after a coronary artery stent is inserted. During a recent multi-institutional study from NIH’s Implementing Genomics in Practice Network, researchers at UNC, University of Florida Health and other sites throughout the country analyzed medical outcomes in 1,815 patients who … Read more
Gauri Rao Joins DPET as Assistant Professor
October 11, 2016Gauri Rao, Pharm.D., M.S., has joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experiential Education. Rao’s principal research interests surround quantitative systems pharmacology, and she is working to understand the processes of infectious diseases, specifically how the infecting pathogen and host immune system interact with each other. Her work is extending the knowledge of complex host-pathogen interactions and perturbations imposed by therapeutic interventions during a time of increasing bacterial resistance, a diminishing antibiotic drug pipeline and lack of viable treatment options for infections due to highly drug resistant bacteria. Prior … Read more
Amber Frick Joins DPET as Clinical Assistant Professor
September 28, 2016Amber Frick, Pharm.D., Ph.D., has joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Frick’s main responsibilities at the School will be developing expertise in the implementation and assessment of new approaches to and best practices in teaching while also taking part in collaborative teaching activities. Additionally, she will establish a scholarship program in education and collaborate with course coordinators to develop and enhance the teaching and assessment activities in the clinical pharmacology sequence of courses in the new curriculum. “Dr. Frick is an educator with specific skills in … Read more
Kashuba Named 2017 ACCP Frontiers Lecturer
July 29, 2016Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., has been selected as the 2017 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutic Frontiers Lecturer. Kashuba, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor, is the chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, the director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core and the director of the UNC CARE Collaboratory for Eradication of HIV Pharmacology Core. ACCP is a 17,000 member professional association of clinical pharmacy scientists, practitioners and educators. The organization selects a distinguished scientist each year to present the prominent Therapeutic … Read more
Patterson Named Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America
June 23, 2016Professor Herb Patterson, Pharm.D., is a member of the inaugural group of fellows of the Heart Failure Society of America, one of the most distinguished appointments the organization offers its members. He is also the first pharmacist to be selected to the HFSA executive council. Patterson is the executive vice chair of and a professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, as well as a research professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Cardiology. Those nominated for the fellowship are selected based on their outstanding credentials, achievements and contributions to the field of heart failure medicine … Read more
Rodgers Updates Guide for Heart Failure Patients
April 20, 2016Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Carla A. Sueta, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Division of Cardiology at UNC School of Medicine, have recently completed a fourth edition of their heart failure guide for patients, Learning to Live with Heart Failure. The book provides information and advice to patients with heart failure. For the first time, a Spanish-language version of the heart failure guide will also be made available. It includes contributions from UNC Health Care providers at UNC Medical Center and UNC Rex Healthcare, as well as the University of Maryland … Read more
Study Explains Why Women Need More Truvada than Men to Prevent HIV Infection
March 3, 2016Women need daily doses of the antiviral medication Truvada to prevent HIV infection while men only need two doses per week due to the way the drug accumulates in different body tissues, according to a new study from researchers the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, represents an important paradigm shift for HIV prevention strategies and could have major implications for clinical trial designs, said Angela Kashuba, Pharm.D., senior author of the study and the John and Deborah McNeill Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. “Our data highlight … Read more