News:
PSC Interview Day
Now that COVID restrictions are a thing of the past we were finally able to have our first in person PSC Interview day since March 2020! We had so many wonderful masters and PhD candidates come in to check out what we are all about here at UMB Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Check out our current students presenting some of the amazing research they are working on to the prospective students at our interview day poster session. After a long day of interviews with the faculty and getting to know some of the current students we brought the interviewees out to wind down with a fun night at Pickles Pub with drinks, food and karaoke.
Comps Party
Congrats to all the students who completed their comprehensive exams this Fall to become PhD candidates! To celebrate we had our comps party at pickles pub with food, drinks, and karaoke.
Faculty Grant Awards
Jace Jones was awarded an AACP New Investigator Award for the project titled “Sphingolipid Metabolism as a Diagnostic Marker of Hepatotoxicity in DILI”.
Maureen Kane was awarded a sub-award grant with colleagues from The Johns Hopkins University on the NIH-R01 project titled ‘Retinoic acid synthesis induced by noncoding dsRNA controls Regeneration’.
New Patents
Alex MacKerell and colleagues from the University of Miami were awarded a U.S. patent (Number 10,501,413) for the invention titled “Inhibitors of the Notch Transcriptional Activation Complex and Methods of Use of the Same”
Student Awards
The following PSC graduate students were awarded Dr. Gerald P. and Margaret M. Polli Graduate Student Travel Awards to present their posters at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual meeting on Nov. 3-6, 2019 in San Antonio, TX:
Dongyue Yu: Beta Cyclodextrin Derivatives as a Viable Tool for a BCS Class II Drug (Griseofulvin) Solubilization
Sherin Thomas: A Pharmacokinetic Study of Two Oxybutynin Transdermal Formulations with Transient Heat Exposure
Faculty Honors
James Polli was elected President of the Association of Graduate Regulatory Educators (AGRE; www.agreglobal.org). AGRE brings together programs offering graduate training in regulatory affairs and regulatory science.
Andy Coop was recognized as the American Chemical Society’s 2019 Maryland Chemist of the Year at a reception held at the SOP on December 10th.
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