Bob Schuck, PharmD, a doctoral student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to support his search for new treatments for vascular inflammation and cardiovascular disease. The two-year fellowship will … Read more
Adam Persky, PhD, has been named director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Pharmacy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Persky, a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, has been the center’s associate … Read more
School faculty members Kim Brouwer, PharmD, PhD, and Harold Kohn, PhD, have received $10,000 grants from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. Brouwer, a William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and … Read more
Three doctoral students at the School have earned travel awards for the 2011 AAPS Workshop on Drug Transporters in ADME: From the Bench to the Bedside. The students are Matthew Dufek from the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Nathan Pfeifer … Read more
The School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics held an adjunct faculty mini-retreat on December 17.
Kim L. R. Brouwer, PharmD, PhD, was named an Alumni Fellow by Oregon State University at a dinner and awards ceremony on October 29 in Corvallis, Oregon. “Dr. Brouwer remains a Beaver at heart, even with the time spent at … Read more
The Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics held its 2010 Fellows Day on Wednesday, June 23. The division’s fellows presented posters of their research, and second-year fellows John An, Angela Yu, Ahsan Naqi Rizwan, Kyle Ellis, Irene La-Beck, Amanda Jones, … Read more
Scientists at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that increasing levels of a certain enzyme in blood vessels can lower blood pressure, at least in mice, which could bode … Read more
Gary Pollack, PhD, executive associate dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be the new dean of the Washington State University College of Pharmacy starting August 1. “I am … Read more
Development of an AIDS vaccine is struggling. Topical treatments aimed at stopping HIV have made little progress. Angela Kashuba, PharmD, believes that antiretroviral drugs are the best hope for halting the spread of AIDS, especially in the developing world. “I … Read more
