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 […]
PCEU celebrates successful 2013-14
To see an album of photos from the PCEU awards reception, click here. VCU School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutics chairman Peter Byron opened the third PCEU Grants, Scholarships & Awards Reception by noting that faculty, staff and students had secured more than $590,000 in new grants, contracts, scholarships and gifts during fiscal year 2013-14. […]
Combined degree student Tien Truong named Express Scripts Scholar
VCU School of Pharmacy Pharm.D./Ph.D. student Tien Truong has been named an Express Scripts Scholar by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. She is one of four dual-degree pharmacy students nationwide to receive a $10,000 scholarship furnished by the Express Scripts Foundation. Truong has been in the School of Pharmacy’s Pharm.D./Ph.D. degree program […]
Glennon doubly honored with two American Chemical Society awards
The American Chemical Society’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry has bestowed two of its highest awards on VCU School of Pharmacy professor Richard A. Glennon. Glennon has been inducted into the American Chemical Society’s 2014 Division of Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. He also has received the Fifth Annual Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship […]
Biophore makes gift to support Dukat’s research
VCU School of Pharmacy associate professor Malgorzata Dukat has received an unrestricted gift from Biophore to support her research with the school’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry. Dukat’s research interests include the central nervous system and drugs with emphasis on novel mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease, depression, pain and drug abuse treatment. Her tools are classical […]
SOP postdoc earns international recognition for research
VCU School of Pharmacy postdoctoral fellow and alumnus Aurijit Sarkar (Ph.D. ’10) is one of two recipients worldwide of the International Society for Matrix Biology’s Young Scientists Award. He and Elisa Migliorini of the University of Grenoble-Alpes in France were selected for the award based on their oral presentations at the 2014 Proteoglycans Gordon […]
Pharmacist Collaborative Care and Outreach in the Community named Magrath award finalist
The VCU School of Pharmacy’s Pharmacist Collaborative Care and Outreach in the Community project is a regional winner of the 2014 Engagement Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award and a finalist for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award. Pharmacist Collaborative Care and Outreach in the Community, or PCOC, refers to School of Pharmacy-based […]
ISPOR International Meeting: SOP chapter ranks second in world
VCU School of Pharmacy graduate students, faculty and alumni made a good showing at the 19th Annual International Meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. This year’s theme was “Examining the Role of Big Data in Healthcare Decision Making.” The ISPOR meeting, which took place the first week of June in […]