Holdford honored with Lyman Award for scholarly work
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy will honor VCU School of Pharmacy professor David Holdford with the 2015 Rufus A. Lyman Award during AACP’s Annual Meeting. The award – named in honor of AJPE creator Rufus Lyman — recognizes the best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education in 2014. Holdford’s paper, […]
AACP recognizes VCU School of Pharmacy for transformative community service
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected VCU School of Pharmacy to receive the 2014-15 Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award for its significant commitment to addressing unmet community needs through education, practice and research. Representatives from the VCU School of Pharmacy will be honored for the school’s Pharmacist Collaborative Care and Outreach […]
In memoriam: Harold L. Smith (B.S. ’56, Ph.D. ’62)
Harold Linwood Smith, a School of Pharmacy alumnus and associate professor emeritus, died April 17, 2015, at age 87. A Richmond native, he earned his B.S. degree at the MCV School of Pharmacy in 1956 after having served in the Virginia Air National Guard during the Korean War. He went on to earn his […]
Graduate student fund endowed in Karnes’ name
In honor of the recent retirement of VCU School of Pharmacy professor H. Thomas Karnes, a group of his former graduate students launched an initiative to honor his accomplishments into perpetuity. To that end, an endowment fund to benefit pharmacy graduate students has been established in his name with donations already totaling more than […]
SOP class of ’15 graduation right around the corner
Graduation ceremonies Members of VCU School of Pharmacy’s class of 2015 will don their caps, gowns and olive-colored hoods for a pharmacy-specific ceremony May 8 and a university-wide celebration May 9. SOP professor Jean-Venable “Kelly” Goode will speak at this year’s Hooding and Diploma Ceremony, which begins at 2 p.m. May 8 at St. Paul’s […]
Medicinal Chemistry’s Yan Zhang: Research renewed by NIDA at $1.9 million
VCU School of Pharmacy associate professor Yan Zhang’s NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse grant, “Non-Peptide Mu Opioid Receptor Selective Antagonists,” has been renewed for another five years with funding of $1.9 million. Zhang is the principal investigator for this multidisciplinary research project, which began in his lab at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry in 2005. […]
SOP alumna Chun-Chun Li to discuss research and drug development in Asia
Chun-Chun Li, general manager of the Virginia Contract Research Organization Co. Ltd. in Taipei, Taiwan, will discuss “Clinical Research and Drug Development in Asia” at noon April 3 in VCU School of Pharmacy’s Smith Building, Room 103. All are invited to attend. Li, whose nickname is Lilly, earned her Ph.D. at the school in 1995. Her […]
2015 Wiederholt Prize garners Holdford further recognition in work with adherence
VCU School of Pharmacy professor David A. Holdford has been selected to receive the 2015 American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Pharmaceutical Research And Science Wiederholt Prize for Best Published Paper Award for Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences. The award, in recognition of his paper, “Adherence and Persistence Associated With Appointment-Based Medication Synchronization Program,” will be presented March 29 […]
ASCPT taps Slattum for 2015 Distinguished Service Award
VCU School of Pharmacy professor Patty Slattum has been selected to receive the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics’ 2015 Henry W. Elliott Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented March 4 during ASCPT’s 116th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. “This is a tremendous award!” said Don Brophy, chairman of the School of […]
Institute hosts inaugural VCU 3D Summit
The first VCU 3D Summit, a day of discovering drug discovery and development at the university, takes place Feb. 4 in Rooms A and B of Biotech One, 800 E. Leigh St. The summit, arranged by the Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, will feature short talks on current drug topics by faculty from […]