faculty news
Channel Openers on GABAergic Networks. • Curtis W. Noonan was awarded $363,589 from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for the Libby Epidemiology Research Program.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grants • Katherine O’Neal, ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Resident Practice-Based Research Grant, $5,000, “An evaluation of health literacy preparedness within a chain community pharmacy environment.” Dr. Kimberly M. Crosby is the faculty advisor.
University of Pittsburgh
Grants
Appointments/Elections
• Stephen V. Frye, $873,000 over two years from the NIH, “Discovery of Small Molecule MBT Domain Antagonists.”
• Brian A. Potoski was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserves last summer, completed Direct Commission Officer School in January and currently serves in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps.
• Angela D. M. Kashuba, $100,000 from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, “Preventing HIV Infection in Women: Targeting Antiretrovirals to Mucosal Tissues.” • Andrew L. Lee, $97,556 from the NIH, “Dynamic Networks and Mechanisms of Allosteric Communication in Proteins.” • Rihe Liu, $59,950 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Identification of the Interactome of Methylated Histones from Human Proteome.” • Mary F. Paine, $342,592 from the National Institutes of Health, “Mechanisms Underlying Drug-Diet Interaction.” • Alexander Tropsha, $730,789; National Institute of General Medical Services, NIH; “Predictive QSAR Modeling.”
Promotions • Timothy J. Ives, professor
Retirements • Boka W. Hadzija, professor
The University of Oklahoma Awards • H. Anne Pereira received patent no. 7,655,480 on Feb. 2, 2010. Title of patent: “Method for predicting sepsis or an acute infectious inflammatory response.”
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• Amy L. Seybert has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. • Wen Xie was invited to serve on the editorial board of Molecular Endocrinology.
Awards • Randall B. Smith was selected by the executive board of the school’s American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists as the 2009 Faculty Member of the Year. • Robert J. Weber was selected as one of the 2010 recipients of the Jack L. Beal Post-baccalaureate Alumni Award, sponsored by The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy and the OSU College of Pharmacy Alumni Society.
Grants • Levent Kirisci received $677,090 from the National Institutes of Health for “Quantifying and Tracking Risk for Substance Use Disorder.” • Dexi Liu received $1,730,566 from the National Institutes of Health for “Computer-Assisted Hydrodynamic Gene Delivery for Hemophilia Gene Therapy.” • Xiang Qun Xie received $1,650,020 from the National Institutes of Health for “Structure/Function of the CB2 Receptor Binding and G-protein Recognition Pockets.” • Ralph E. Tarter received $10,081,627 from the National Institutes of Health for “Drug Abuse Vulnerability: Mechanisms and Manifestations.”