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Grants
• Robin Buchannon, principal investigator, and Marc Slattery, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA. Amount: $599,965. Title: NIUST Integrated Exploration, Research and Technology Development. • Alice M. Clark, principal investigator, and Ameeta Agarwal, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amount: $375,897. Title: New Drugs for Opportunistic Infections. • Robert J. Doerksen, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: Mississippi State University/National Science Foundation. Amount: $68,861. Title: Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems. • Ikhlas Khan, principal investigator, and Larry Walker, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: Food and Drug Administration. Amount: $2,500,000. Title: Science Based Authentication of Dietary Supplements. • Rahul Khanna, principal investigator. Source of Award: Biogen Idec. Amount: $93,001. Title: Health Utility among Caregivers of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. • Dale Nagle, principal investigator, and Yu-Dong Zhou, coprincipal investigator. Source of Award: National Institutes of Health. Amount: $246,402. Title: Anticancer Drug Discovery that Targets Tumor Hypoxia. • David Pasco, principal investigator, Colin Jackson, co-principal investigator, and Nirmal Pugh, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: National Institutes of Health. Amount: $354,177. Title: Immune Enhancing Echinacea Bacterial Endophytes. • Michael A. Repka, principal investigator, and Soumyajit Majumdar, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: Hercules Incorporated. Amount: $60,000. Title: Fundamental Studies in the Application of Ashland Aqualon Polymers for Hot-Melt Extrusion for the Oral Delivery of Soluble and Insoluble Drugs from Tablets, Capsules and Oral Film Dosage Forms. • Leigh Ann Ross, principal investigator, Ashley Ellis, coprincipal investigator, and Lauren S. Bloodworth, co-principal investigator. Source of Award: Funderburk’s Pharmacy. Amount: $201,844. Title: Community Pharmacy Residency Expansion Project. • Larry Walker, principal investigator, Babu Tekwani, coprincipal investigator, and Dhammika Nanayakkara, coprincipal investigator. Source of Award: U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. Amount: $1,376,305. Title: Development of Safer Drugs for Treatment of Malaria in U.S. Troops, Civilian Personnel & Travelers.
Retirements
• John C. Matthews, professor of pharmacology and research professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The University of Montana Grants
• Annjeanette Belcourt-Dittloff has received $21,600 from the University of Washington for Mental and Sexual Health in Native American Communities: Understanding adaptive recovery following trauma among a sample of American Indian Women. • Michael Kavanaugh has received an additional $10,160 from NIH for The Big Sky Brain Project. • John Lawrence has received a diversity supplement of $54,728 from NIH to study Differential Modes of Cholinergic Transmission onto Cellular Hippocampal Targets. • Curtis Noonan has received an additional $135,662 from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for a Libby, Montana Epidemiology Research Program. • Curtis Noonan, Annjeanette Belcourt-Dittloff and Anthony Ward have received $172,389 from NIH for Residential Wood Smoke Interventions; Improving Health in Native American Populations. • David Poulsen was awarded $1,047,454 from the U.S. Department of Army for Pre-clinical and Clinical Development of Low Dose Methamphetamine for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. He also received $16,835 from Thomas Jefferson University to study Respiratory Motor Neuron Protection following Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. • Kendra Procacci has been awarded $50,000 from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services for Implementing Asthma Clinics in Community Pharmacies. • Elizabeth Putnam received $420,011 from NIH for The Role of SPARC in Lung Fibrosis. • David Shepherd received $1,787,639 from NIH for Consequences of AhR Activation in Dendritic Cells.
The University of Tennessee Appointments/Elections
• William E. Evans, appointed to the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Board of Directors • Stephanie J. Phelps, appointed to the first Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Pediatric Pharmacy Specialty Council • Murali Mo Yallapu, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences
Awards
• Jason Carter, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/White House Champion of Change Nominee • Christopher K. Finch, Memphis Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 Award • Stephanie J. Phelps, American College of Clinical Pharmacy Education Award • Kelly Rogers, American College of Clinical Pharmacy fellow
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