faculty news
The University of Montana Grants • Richard J. Bridges received $197,066 from the Montana Board of Research & Commercialization Technology for “Enhancement of Applied Research in Biomedicine.” • Jean T. Carter and Bryan Cochran have been awarded $141,500 from NIH for “Predicting the Development of Opioid Abuse and Dependence.” • John M. Gerdes received $1,124,967 from NIH for “PET Imaging Tracers to Quantify Norepinephrine Transporter in the Brain.” • John M. Gerdes has received $43,316 from NIH for “Arenavirus Entry and its Inhibition.” • Andrij Holian has been awarded $9,730 from NIH for an ARRA supplement to his “Defining the Roles of Macrophages Subsets and NK Lymphocytes in Silicosis” grant.
• Mike P. Kavanaugh has been awarded $18,180 from NIH for an ARRA supplement to his “Characterization and Use of a Fluorescent Endocannabinoid Transporter Substrates” grant. • Diana I. Lurie and J.B. Alexander Ross have received $415,821 from NIH for an Olympus FV 1000 Scanning Confocal TIRF Imaging Workstation. • Lori J. Morin received $206,182 from HHS, Bureau of Health Professions, for scholarships for disadvantaged students in pharmacy. • Lori J. Morin has been awarded $1,214,452 from HRSA for a Native American Center of Excellence. • David Shepherd has been awarded $9,730 from NIH for an ARRA supplement to his “Consequences of AhR Activation in Dendritic Cells” grant.
University of New England Appointments/Elections • Douglas H. Kay is the interim dean at the University of New England College of Pharmacy.
The University of New Mexico Appointments/Elections • Matthew Campen, associate professor, pharmaceutical sciences • Stefani Hines was appointed as an advisory board member and as a member of the associate editor board for the leading international environmental health research journal, Environmental Health Perspectives. • Bernadette A. Johnson, assistant professor, pharmacy practice
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• Jeffrey P. Norenberg was elected by the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) House of Delegates to serve as the director-at-large on the SNM Board of Directors. He was also appointed to serve on the SNM Education and Research Foundation Board of Directors. • A. Mary Vilay, assistant professor, pharmacy practice