Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in North Carolina, and chemotherapy has shown very limited effectiveness in treating it, one main reason being that the current standard therapy cannot penetrate tumor tissue. James Byrne, a graduate … Read more
Sam Lai, PhD, has received a $7,500 UNC Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study the prevalence and properties of preexisting immunity in humans to PEGylated drugs, which could potentially diminishes the … Read more
James Byrne, a PhD student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the 2012 recipient of the School’s Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Student Research Award. The award is given annually to the top student in the School’s PhD in … Read more
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor Michael “Mike” Jay, PhD, will succeed Leaf Huang, PhD, as the new chair of the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as of April 1. Huang, who is also an Eshelman … Read more
Xin Ming, PhD, a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an NC TraC$50K Pilot Grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute to support his research on using targeted siRNA therapy to … Read more
Julian Wooten, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, the oldest and highest honorary society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wooten, the first … Read more
Xiao Xiao, PhD, has been named vice chair of the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Xiao, the Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor of Gene Therapy, joined the division in 2006. His research focuses on gene … 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
Sam Lai, PhD, has been honored with an AACP New Faculty Award and has received a $400,000 grant from NIAID to explore trapping HIV in mucus as a way of preventing infection. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Faculty … Read more
Julian Wooten, a graduate student in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, has directed a documentary about the state of the HIV/AIDS movement in North Carolina. The film, “Heart to HARRT: The State of the Movement,” was released in early December … Read more
