Jul Aug 2008 APN.pdf - AACP

faculty n e w s
Awards
• F. Michael James is the recipient
of the 2008 M. Keith Fearing
Award.
Reappointment
• Robert L. McCarthy has agreed
to serve a further five-year term
as dean of the School of Pharmacy
at the University of Connecticut.
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campbell
University
Recognition
• Stephen H. Fuller has been
named a Fellow of AACP’s
Academic Leadership Fellows
Program.
University of
connecticut
Grants
Awards
•
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David G. Bowyer is the recipient of a WVSHP Leadership Award.
Grants
creighton
University
• Chris J. Destache received a grant for $224,673 over a two year period
from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his project
entitled "Pharmacology of Antiretroviral Nanoparticles."
University of
charleston
• Fadi Alkhateeb has been awarded a grant from the Eyeforpharma
Company for his research on “Influences on Physicians’ Adoption of
E-detailing.”
• Rebecca S. Myers received $10,000 for her proposal, “Expression and
Functional Studies of Burkholderia cenocepacia LIpE.”
• Dean Reardon received $10,000 for his proposal on “Inhibition of
Metastasis via Somatostatin Signaling in Breast Cancer Cell Lines.”
• Nina Zivanovic received $10,000 for her proposal, “Estrogen Regulation
of Serotonin Transporter and Serotonin Autoreceptors in Vitro.”
Recognition
• In December 2007, Krista Capehart received official recognition as a
nationally Board Certified Asthma Educator.
Appointments
• John P. Rovers was promoted to
full professor.
Awards
• June F. Johnson published an article
titled "Bone health screen-
Appointments
• Veronika Butterweck has been
appointed to the editorial advisory
board of Phytomedicine.
• L. Douglas Ried was appointed
to the editorial board of The
Annals of Pharmacotherapy on its
psychiatry panel.
Grants
• Raymond G. Booth received a
$1.5M four-year grant from the
National Institute of Drug Abuse
for his research on 5HT2C
Agonist/5HT2A Antagonist
Drugs for Cocaine Addiction and
was awarded a $1.8M five-year
grant from the National Institute
of Mental Health for Design and
Synthesis of Serotonin 5HT2C
Agonists Drugs with 5HT2A/2B
Antagonist Activity.
drake University
ing, education, and referral project
in northwest Iowa: Creating
a model for community pharmacies"
and is scheduled to be
published in the May/June 2008
issue of Journal of the American
Pharmacists Association.
University of Florida
• Maureen Keller-Wood received
a $1.5M five-year grant from
the National Institutes of Health
to continue her work on understanding
the neuroendocrine
and physiological adaptations in
pregnancy through her research,
“The Baroreflex in Pregnancy:
Effects of Adrenal and Placental
Steroids.”
• Sihong Song received a two-year
$130,000 award from the Alpha-1
Foundation to support his
project titled “Development of
AAT Deficient Mouse Models.”
Recognition
• The UF Cyber Café team - Peter
Mauro, Lane Blanchard, Michael
S. Brodeur and Randell E. Doty
has been awarded the AACP
Distinguished Service Award for
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• Ronald J. Torry was elected president
of the Iowa Physiological
Society for 2008-09 and will also
serve as vice chair (2008-09)
and then chair (2008-09) of the
Iowa Academy of Science, Physiology
& Health Sciences Section.
their years of service in providing
connectivity for attendees at the
AACP annual meetings.
• Two UF graduate research
students, recognized in April at
the American Society for Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
annual meeting, received
the 2008 ASCPT Presidential
Trainee Awards - the highest
bestowed to “clinical pharmacologists-in-training”:
Hrishikesh
Navare, a graduate student in the
Center for Pharmacogenomics in
the lab of Julie A. Johnson, and
Elvin Price, a graduate student
in the laboratory of Issam Zineh
received the award in recognition
of his work entitled: “Fenofibrate
modulates endothelial cell production
of IL-8 and ENA-78 in a
dose-dependent fashion.”
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