Abstracts by academic fellow Julie Dumond and GlaxoSmithKline fellow Manoli Vourvahis have been accepted at the 13th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Dumond and Vourvahis have each received a Young Investigator Award to attend the conference in February. … Read more
School of Pharmacy Ranks Seventeenth in NIH Funding In fiscal year 2004, the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received $5.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, ranking seventeenth among the … Read more
The UNC School of Pharmacy has established an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists student chapter. The funding provided by AAPS will be used to bring speakers to the School (for example, industry leaders speaking about drug development processes and career … Read more
The UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes has awarded associate professor Betsy Sleath a grant to study racial and ethnic health disparities in North Carolina. Sleath’s project, “Improving Pharmacy Services for Latinos in North Carolina” will be conducted … Read more
Stefanie Ferreri, clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, has received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Immunization Program. Ferreri will receive $149,000 for a one-year project, “Enhancing Pneumococcal Vaccine Rates … Read more
The Cellular Metabolism and Transport Core in the School of Pharmacy has begun operations. This service center has been developed to provide fresh mouse, rat, and human hepatocytes to campus investigators at cost-recovery rates much less than commercial vendors. Other … Read more
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct studies testing what treatments work best for particular health conditions with the goal of promoting better patient outcomes. The agency, … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy in collaboration with Elizabeth City State University is pleased to announce the Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program Beginning in Fall 2005, the UNC-Chapel Hill Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program … Read more
This summer, Courtney Fox and May Liu have access to the School of Pharmacy ‘s world-class research facilities and resources, usually available only to UNC graduate students and professors. The School of Pharmacy has welcomed two high school students into … Read more
K.T. Vaughan has been busy since graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 with a master’s in library science. In addition to being appointed as an adjunct clinical assistant professor in the UNC School of … Read more
