May 6, 2013
Internationally known AIDS and HIV researcher Angela Kashuba, PharmD, has been awarded the John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professorship at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Kashuba studies the role of antiretroviral therapy in preventing the transmission of HIV along with the optimal dosing and drug combinations for treating HIV infection. She works to better understand the interactions between drugs and between drugs and signaling molecules, as well as the roles that gender and ethnicity play in the way drugs are processed by the body. She plays a significant role in the $32-million UNC-led Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication, a comprehensive effort to eliminate HIV infection.
The McNeills have given $333,000 that will create a $500,000 endowed professorship at the School once it is combined with $167,000 in state matching funds. This is the third professorship John “Sandy” McNeill Jr. has endowed at the pharmacy school.
“Mr. McNeill has made an impact on health care at every level,” says Bob Blouin, PharmD, dean of the School and Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor. “We are grateful not just for his financial support but also for his expertise and the countless hours he has devoted to the advancement of the School and the profession.”
A 1972 graduate of the School, McNeill has distinguished himself as a pharmacist, businessman, and entrepreneur during a career that has included time both in patient care and in the pharmaceutical industry, including a role as founding director of one of the largest clinical research organizations in the world, Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.
McNeill has served three terms as a member of the board of directors of the Pharmacy Foundation of NC, Inc., including one term as chair. He has also been a member of the Wilmington advisory board for United Carolina Bank and the executive board of the Cape Fear Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Kashuba earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Toronto and completed a general practice residency at Women’s College Hospital. She practiced as a critical care pharmacist at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Toronto before attending the State University of New York at Buffalo to earn her doctor of pharmacy. She completed postdoctoral pharmacology training at the Clinical Pharmacology Research Center at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, New York.
In 1997 Kashuba joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty. She is director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core and director of the Pharmacology Core for the UNC-Delaney CARE HIV eradication initiative. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. Kashuba is the author of more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and has received more than $18 million in research funding.
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