December 7, 2011
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of Angela Kashuba, PharmD, to the rank of full professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
“In the past thirty years, AIDS has gone from being a death sentence to a manageable condition to being only a few years away from a cure. Dr. Kashuba has been a major contributor to the effort that has made this possible and a leader here at the School,” says Dean Bob Blouin, PharmD.
Kashuba is a member of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core, and director of the Pharmacology Core for the $32 million UNC Delaney Collaboratory Cure AIDS Project. She has also been recently awarded a U01 grant from NIAID—the first ever to a PharmD—worth nearly $2.2 million and a $500,000 shared instrumentation grant from NCRR. She is also a collaborator on a $3 million R01 using the humanized mouse model to develop next-generation HIV prevention.
Kashuba’s research focuses on the clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral agents used in the treatment of HIV infection. Specifically, she is investigating the role of antiretroviral therapy in preventing the transmission of HIV, determining optimal dosing and drug combinations for the treatment of HIV infection, understanding and predicting drug-drug and drug-cytokine interactions and adverse effects, and role of gender and ethnicity in drug disposition. Her innovative methods and approach to drug development have resulted in her being named chair of the HIV Pharmacology Best Practices Working Group within the NIAID, Division of AIDS.
Kashuba is a reviewer for sixteen journals and author of a dozen book chapters and nearly a hundred peer-reviewed publications earned her BS in pharmacy from the University of Toronto and her PharmD from the State University of New York at Buffalo and spent time as a clinical hospital pharmacist before completing a pharmacology fellowship at the Clinical Pharmacology Research Center at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, New York. She joined the School in 1997 as an assistant professor.
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