Academic Pharmacy Now features student contributions to opioid abuse research
Research by VCU School of Pharmacy professor Norman Carroll’s advisees and new alumnae Batula Electricwala and Anisha Patel is featured in the December edition of Academic Pharmacy Now. The article covers what a number of pharmacy schools and colleges nationwide are doing in relation to the opioid abuse crisis. Electricwala and Patel, who graduated from VCU in […]
AACP New Investigator Award goes to Nadpara
VCU School of Pharmacy assistant professor Pramit Nadpara has received a 2017 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Investigator Award. Nadpara’s research interests include reporting health service use patterns and conducting health outcomes assessment studies with an emphasis in oncology. “Although lung cancer in the elderly is associated with a poor prognosis,” Nadpara […]
Special report: Responding to the drug diversion crisis through collaboration and empowerment
Thanks to Kalyann Kauv for providing the following report on a Pharmacy Diversion Awareness Conference sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in November. The DEA began offering these conferences five years ago to educate pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy loss personnel nationwide on the identification and prevention of diversion activity. Drug diversion: a medical and legal […]
Pharmacy alumnus honors son-in-law, pays it forward
Story courtesy of VCU Development and Alumni Relations Campaign News In 2006, Ronald Davis’ (B.S. ’73) son-in-law, David Williams (B.S. ’97, Pharm.D. ’06), graduated from the VCU School of Pharmacy. To celebrate Williams’ accomplishment, Davis established a scholarship in his honor with a gift of $10,000. In April 2016, he pledged an additional $25,000 […]
AAPS recognizes Biswas with Graduate Student Research Excellence Award
VCU School of Pharmacy Ph.D. student Deblina Biswas has been awarded the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2016 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality. She is one of four graduate students in the APQ section to have won the award, presented during the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in November in Denver. The award, sponsored by […]
Singh receives EPIC Pharmacies Student Grant Award
Third-year VCU School of Pharmacy student Jatinder Singh has been named one of 12 Pharm.D. students nationwide to receive a 2016 EPIC Pharmacies Student Grant Award. EPIC Pharmacies Inc., a national network of more than 1,400 independently owned pharmacies, annually awards $1,000 grants to students who plan to practice in an independent pharmacy upon […]
In memoriam: Norman L. Hilliard (B.S. ’53)
MCV School of Pharmacy alumnus and Richmond native Norman L. Hilliard, 88, died Nov. 19, 2016. Survivors include daughter Catherine Miles and son-in-law Caleb Miles; daughter Norma Anderson; grandsons Caleb H. Miles, Taylor Miles and Andy Anderson; and sister Frances Hilliard Pritchard. He was predeceased by his wife of 65 years, Lola West Hilliard, […]
Medicinal Chemistry’s Huang awarded $1.5 million NIH/NIGMS grant
Rong Huang, assistant professor in VCU School of Pharmacy’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry, has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Science. The project is titled “Protein N-terminal Methylation Mechanisms and Inhibition.” Haung notes that the overall objective of the research is […]
Ogbonna tapped as SOP associate dean for admissions, student services
Kelechi C. “K.C.” Ogbonna has been named associate dean for admissions and student services by Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, effective Nov. 15. “We are very fortunate to have Dr. Ogbonna as our new associate dean,” said School of Pharmacy Dean Joseph T. DiPiro. “He brings a wealth of talent, energy and ideas […]
Join us for the third Victor A. Yanchick watercolors art auction
A select collection of paintings by VCU School of Pharmacy Emeritus Dean Victor Yanchick will be available for auction 5-8 p.m. Oct. 27 at The Valentine, 1015 E. Clay St. in Richmond. Proceeds from sales will go toward pharmacy student scholarships. Lisa Schaffner, director of public relations and marketing for UNOS and former news anchor for WRIC-TV (Channel […]