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Pharmacy’s Dean honored with Portoghese Lectureship Award

By Rosa Mejia-Cruz Jul 12, 2022

R. Kip Guy, Ph.D., dean of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (UKCOP), has been named the recipient of the 2022 Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship Award. This award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry honors Guy for his outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry.

Dwoskin to Receive National Award for Innovation

By Rosa Mejia-Cruz May 16, 2022

Dr. Linda Dwoskin has been named the recipient of the 2022 Innovator Award by the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

Alex Flannery and David Feola Receive Inaugural Clinical Research Catalysts Pilot Award

By Caitlyn Romanski Jul 7, 2021

Alex Flannery (PharmD, PhD) and David Feola (PharmD, PhD) recently received the $50,000 University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy’s Inaugural Clinical Research Catalysts Pilot Award for their research project “Urinary Immune Cell Profiling in Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.”

Jill Turner Awarded Neuropharmacology Early Career Award

By: Karli LeMaster Apr 15, 2021

Jill Turner, a University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy assistant professor was recently awarded the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Neuropharmacology Early Career Award for 2021.

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UKCOP Researchers Discuss the Potential Benefit of Azithromycin in Fighting COVID-19 Related Inflammation

By: Jacob Lewis Apr 14, 2021

Drs. Vince Venditto and David Feola have been studying the immunomodulatory effects of the antimicrobial drug azithromycin in the context of diseases in which inflammation drives part of the pathology including pneumonia, spinal cord injury, and heart attack.

UK Pharmacist Part of Committee to Better Serve Patients with Heart Conditions

By: Megan Bryant Apr 7, 2021

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the United States more than 450,000 people are hospitalized each year due to a condition called atrial fibrillation, or AFib. AFib can cause chest pains, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, and ultimately increases the risk of stroke. While there are a variety of treatments for AFib, the American College of Cardiology Oversight Committee recently published an updated medication decision pathway for management of anticoagulation for AFib, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and other heart conditions.

UKCOP Researchers Receive $3M in Funding to Develop Treatments to Combat Ewing Sarcoma

By Jacob Lewis Mar 31, 2021

A group of University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy researchers received $3 million in NIH funding to develop new treatments to combat the rare cancer Ewing sarcoma. Because cancer research is such a massive field spanning across different disciplines, UKCOP researchers decided to utilize team science to approach the project.

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UK Grad Student Receives NIH F31 Award for a project started with UK IRC pilot funding

By: Jacob Lewis Mar 3, 2021

UK College of Pharmacy graduate student Kaitlind Howard received a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project that previously received pilot funding from the UK Igniting Research Collaborations program.

Prisinzano Named New Director of UK’s Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation

By Kristie Colón Jan 26, 2021

Thomas Prisinzano, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been named director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI). Prisinzano replaces former Director Jon Thorson, who was recently promoted to associate dean of research in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Rob Lodder, left, and Phil Almeter are doing a drug quality study to identify impurities in injectable drugs. They use infrared technology to detect impurities on September 29, 2020.

UK HealthCare Study Uncovers Quality of Medication

Bryson Westerfield Dec 17, 2020

UK HealthCare is one of only two known pharmacy groups examining and testing incoming medications for dispensing for quality, purity, and potential contamination. A recent drug study revealed that several vials in their contents had impurities greater than 6 times the amount allowed by the United States Pharmacopeia.

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