faculty news
“Kilimanjaro-Purdue MS Degree in Regulatory and Quality Compliance.” • Mark S. Cushman received $210,445 from PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute for “Novel Topoisomerase I Inhibitors.” • Ryan M. Drenan received $220,390 from PHS-NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Alpha6* nAChRs in Dopamine Transmission and Nicotine Dependence.” • Robert L. Geahlen received $300,855 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Tyrosine Kinases and Lymphocyte Activation.” • Robert L. Geahlen received $13,371 from PHS-NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Tyrosine Kinases and Lymphocyte Activation.” • Arun K. Ghosh received $203,243 from Wadsworth Center Health Res Inc. for “Inhibition and Mechanism of Flavivirus Methyltransferase.” • Marlene O. Heeg received four grants from EMD Serono Inc.: $138,073 for “Improving Disease Modifying Therapy Self Injection and Adverse Effect Management in the MS Population: Best Practices for Patient Education and Communication”; $75,000 for “Managing Treatment-Related Adverse Effects and Maintaining Adherence to Injectable Disease-Modifying Therapies: The Emerging Role of the Specialty Pharmacist”; $139,810 for “Practical Considerations for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis: A Clinical Primer for the Managed Care Professional”; and $157,260 for “Clinical Case Scenarios Focused on Identifying and Overcoming Potential Therapeutic Barriers to Maintaining Adherence to Interferon Beta Therapy in Patients with MS Throughout the Course of Their Disease.” • Michael B. Kays received $4,500 from Indiana University Health for “Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of an Extended Infusion Piperacillin/Tazobactam Dosing Regimen in a Pediatric Intensive Care Population.” • Rakhi Karwa and Sonak D. Pastakia received $4,525 from the Indiana University School of Medicine for “East Africa International Epidemiologic Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Regional Consortium.” • Douglas J. Lacount received $273,324 from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science for “A Temporal View of the Plasmodium-Red Blood Cell Interactome.” • Tonglei Li received $126,078 from National Science Foundation for “Toward Building a Crystal Structure Prediction Framework.” • Chiwook Park received $269,883 from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science for “Identification of Protein-Metabolite Interactome.” • Laurie L. Parker received two grants from the PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute: $190,336 for “Biosensor Technology to Monitor Leukemia-Related Kinase Activity in Patient Cells,” and $235,412 “Label-Free, Real-Time Detection of Kinase Activity in Vitro and in Single Cells Using SurfaceEnhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS).”
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ACADEMIC PHARMACY NOW Fall/Winter 2013
• Rodolfo Pinal received $420,000 from National Science Foundation for “SusChEM: Dendrimer-like Biopolymer: A New Material Platform to Deliver Active Ingredients.” He also received $140,000 from Multi Sponsored Industrials for “Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research Consortium.” • Carol B. Post received $20,402 and $282,493 from PHSNIH National Institute of General Medical Science for “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Structure of Peptide and Protein Complexes.” • Jean-Christopher Rochet received $75,000 from Showalter Trust for “Mechanisms of PhIP-Mediated Neurotoxicity and Relevance to Parkinson’s Disease.” • Amy H. Sheehan received $85,300 from Eli Lilly and Company for “Joint FDA/Industry/Academia Regulatory Pharmaceutical Fellowship-Drug Information-Lilly Portion.” • Daniel T. Smith received $21,897 from PHS-NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Role of Acrolein in Spinal Cord Injury.” • Margie E. Snyder received $1,000 from National Association of Chain Drug Stores for “2013 Heart to Heart Community Health Fair.” • Lynne S. Taylor received two grants from the National Science Foundation: $275,000 for “Collaborative Research: Polysaccharide Derivatives for Enhanced Drug Delivery” and $150,000 for “AIR Technology Translation: Development of a prototype solubility enhancing formulation for improved drug delivery using novel cellulose derivatives.” She also received $65,408 from Anasys Instruments for “Small Business-ERC Collaborative Opportunity: Nanoscale IR Spectroscopy and Thermal Characterization of Solubility Enhancing Drug Delivery Systems” and $60,000 from Merck & Company Inc. for “Studies on Amorphous Solid Dispersion Aqueous Suspensions.” • Joseph Thomas received $140,748 from PHS-NIH National Institute on Aging for “Prognostic Significance of Insufficient Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Help on Health Outcomes/Utilization.” • James E. Tisdale received $44,615 from Health & Hospital Corp of Marion County for “Health and Hospital Corp of Marion County.” • Elizabeth M. Topp received $1,190,102 from NIH for “Protein Aggregation in Amorphous Solids.” • Elizabeth M. Topp, Markus A. Lill and Chiwook Park received $298, 458 from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science for “Protein Aggregation in Amorphous Solids.” • Val J. Watts received $55,308 from Army Natick Research & Development Laboratories for “Novel Vector Control Solutions for Protecting Health of U.S. Military.” • Val J. Watts and Chang-Deng Hu received $463,111 from NIH for “Identification of the AC5 Sensitization Interactome using BiFc.”