November 7, 2008
The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has awarded its 2008-09 Amgen Fellowship to Liying Zhang, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products.
Zhang, who is in division chair Alex Tropsha’s lab, will receive a $22,500 stipend, health insurance, tuition, and travel allowance for presentation of results. She plans to use the fellowship to conduct chemical informatics studies on drug disposition data. Zhang entered the School’s graduate program in 2006 after earning her bachelor’s degree in biotechnology from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
The fellowship selection was made by the School’s Graduate Education Committee, which evaluated candidates on coursework, references, and research proposal. The committee also considered qualities that would make the Amgen Fellow a good ambassador for the School and its graduate program.
The fellowship was founded in 2005 with a gift from Amgen, a global biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets important human therapeutics based on advances in cellular and molecular biology. The fellowship goes to a third- or fourth-year graduate student in pharmaceutical sciences whose research is focused on drug disposition or drug delivery.
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