March 6, 2008
Kevin Brown, PharmD, an Academic HIV Pharmacology Fellow at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as the recipient of the Rho Chi Research Scholarship.
Brown will receive the award during the Rho Chi Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 16, in San Diego, California. He will receive $7,500 to be used for fellowship funding or research costs during the second year of his fellowship. Rho Chi will also reimburse up to $500 of expenses incurred for attending the annual meeting.
The scholarship was established in 2003, and only one is awarded each year to a member of the Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society who is entering the second year of a clinical research fellowship. Candidates for the award are evaluated based on their academic achievements, their narratives of anticipated accomplishments during the second year of their fellowships, and letters of recommendation. Membership in Rho Chi is based on academic performance in the first two years of a PharmD program.
Brown, who was a double major in biology and German at UNC-Chapel Hill, was a 2007 graduate of the School’s doctor of pharmacy program. He was twice named an Eshelman Professional Student Scholar and was inducted into Rho Chi in 2005.
He is completing his fellowship under the guidance of Angela Kashuba, BScPhm, PharmD, DABCP, an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. His research focuses on HIV pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics.
One of Brown’s current projects examines how genetics may affect drug exposures in a group of Malawians. He is also studying the amount of drug that reaches certain sites in the body, which will impact strategies for preventing transmission in HIV-negative and HIV-infected individuals.
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