November 5, 2008
Angela Kashuba, PharmD, will receive the 2009 Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
The award was established in 1986 to honor a young scientist for accomplishments in the field of clinical pharmacology achieved early in his/her career.
The goal of the Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award is to encourage and recognize young scientists active in the field of clinical pharmacology.
Kashuba has made significant contributions regarding the clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral agents used in the treatment of HIV infection. During her ten years at UNC, she has published more than seventy peer-reviewed manuscripts, eighty scientific abstracts and nine book chapters. Her papers have appeared in some of the most highly regarded journals in the field, including field, including Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, AIDS, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and Annals of Internal Medicine.
Kashuba has received more than $5 million dollars in grant support as principal investigator. She is recognized for her scientific achievements in antiretroviral drug pharmacology, and contributing important information to the literature regarding drug-drug and drug-cytokine interactions. In 2003, she received K23 award from NIAID to support her work in rational antiretroviral selection for pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection.
Since 2004, she has served as director of the Clinical Pharmacology/Analytical Chemistry Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research. She is an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.
Kashuba will receive the award at the ASCPT Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in March 2009.
Reported by the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
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