Courtesy of COP Advancement
Edith Nutescu, PharmD ’94, clinical professor, department of pharmacy practice; and director of the Antithrombosis Center at the University of Illinois Medical Center, received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutic Frontiers Clinical Practice Award. This honor recognizes an individual who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy practice.
•Nicole Avant •Michelle Bryson •Rebecca Calderon •Thomas Chiampas •Katie Culos •Daniel Limoges •Danielle Donohue •Pulkit Gupta •Yash Jalundhwala •Laurie Kania •Michael Kenes •Lois Komolafe •Benjamin Le •Neal Lyons •Michael Mearis •Mutiu Okanlawon •Amanda Seddon •Olufunmibi Taiwo •Daniel Wojenski
Graduate students honored on Research Day
Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
This year’s Research Day on Feb. 26 concluded with the 12th Annual Graduate Students Awards Ceremony, recognizing outstanding master’s and doctoral candidates.
Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
Nutescu honored by ACCP
Since 1973, the Chancellor’s Student Service Award has recognized outstanding student leaders and volunteers. This award honors students who, while maintaining high academic achievement, demonstrate a commitment to the UIC community through participation in student organizations or enhance the greater Chicago community through their service activities. The following is a list of 2010 COP recipients.
Jeong’s research project is to understand the induction of CYP2D6 expression in pregnancy. CYP2D6 is an important enzyme involved in bioactivation of pro-carcinogens and hepatic elimination of drugs. Differential expression of CYP2D6 leads to altered rates of drug elimination, and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer. Interestingly, clinical evidence indicates that pregnancy enhances expression and/or activity of CYP2D6. Jeong hopes to identify pregnancyspecific CYP2D6 inducer(s) and underlying regulatory mechanisms for CYP2D6 induction during pregnancy.
Hong is excited to begin research to create a biomimetic, multivalent, dendron-based nanocarrier for cancer targeting. These small drug carriers would be able to deliver medicine directly to a cancer, reducing the harmful side effects of chemotherapy and increasing the effectiveness of medication by mimicking naturally occurring “multivalent binding effects” and “supramolecular selfassembly.”
Hong and Jeong receive Vahlteich Award Seungpyo Hong, PhD assistant professor of biopharmaceutical sciences, and Hyun-Young Jeong, PharmD ’01, PhD ’04, assistant professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice, are recipients of the 2010 Hans W. Vahlteich Research Scholar Awards. The awards are funded by the income generated by the Hans and Ella McCollum Vahlteich Endowment Fund. This fund was created from the estates of the Drs. Vahlteich following their death and totaled nearly $1.4 million. Hans earned his Graduate in Pharmacy (PhG) and Pharmaceutical Chemist (PhC) degrees from the College in 1917 and 1918, respectively. Supporting promising junior faculty members, the award has funded 20 researchers for a total of $700,000 since 1992.
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Biopharmaceutical Sciences Dirim Arslan, W.E. van Doren Scholar Misuk Bae, Wise Travel Award, Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Graduate College Presenter’s Award and American Scholar Consortium Honor Society Invitation Chen-Fen (Terri) Chen, Graduate Student Council Travel Award Yan Chen, W.E. van Doren Scholar, UIC Fellowship Ying He, Edward Benes Scholarship, UIC Fellowship and 3rd Place, Midwest Pharmaceutics Grad Student Research Meeting Tsui-ting Ho, Myron Goldsmith Scholarship and Golden Key Honor Society Chelsea Kirkmire, 2009-10 Pharmacologic Science Training Program Fellowship Sok Bee Lim, Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Graduate College Presenter’s Award, AAPS Physical Pharmacy & Biopharmaceutics Section Travel Award-National Biotechnology Conference 2009 and 3rd place (tie), Controlled Release Society, IL Chapter Poster Competition Mary Ellen Molloy, 2009-10 Pharmacologic Science Training Program Fellowship and Wise Travel Award Ashwini Pai, Provost’s Award for Graduate Research Sunhair Sunoqrot, University of Illinois Chancellor’s Supplemental Research Fellowship Deepali Vartak, 3rd place (tie), Controlled Release Society, IL Chapter Poster Competition Bethany White, UIC Fellowship and 1st place, Midwest Pharmaceutics Grad Student Research Meeting Yiyun Zhang, 3rd Place Poster at UIC Graduate Research Symposium Forensic Science Gregory Hickey, Charles Wesley Petranek Memorial Scholarship Gina Romano, Charles P. Bondy Scholarship Medicinal Chemistry Kyle Butler, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Pre-doctoral Fellowship Xiaokai He, W.E. van Doren Scholar Hazem Abdel-Karim, W.E. van Doren Scholar Yulia Mikhed, Fulbright Scholar (Ukraine Program) Suzanne Quartuccio, Prof. Ludwig Bauer Award May Fern Toh, UIC Fellowship Aditya Vaidya, Oscar Robert Olberg Prize Divya Vasudevan, Joseph Frank Celer Scholarship Pharmacognosy Jacqueline La Marre, Lloyd Yale Memorial Scholarship Linlin Dong, Charles L. Bell Award Yang Song, Paul Sang Award Rene F. Ramos Alvarenga, Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellowship Bethany Elkington, Fulbright Research Fellowship Kimberly Bean, NIH F-31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship Andrew Newsome, UIC Fellowship Pharmacy Administration Fang-Ju Lin, Al Langerman Memorial Scholarship Yash Jalindhwala, Jesse E. Stewart Memorial Scholarship Noteworthy Publication van Breemen, R., Newsome, A., and Dahl, J.: Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Chapter Mass Spectrometry and Drug Discovery. John Wiley & Sons, 2009 Graduate students: Andrew Newsome (Pharmacognosy) and Jeffrey Dahl (Med Chem)
End-of-year awards honor top Pharm.D. students The College of Pharmacy’s 58th Annual Doctor of Pharmacy Honors Convocation was held April 27 at the College. More than 40 scholarships, totaling $125,000, were awarded to the following students by alumni, donors and faculty.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Excellence in Pharmacy Award Lara Ellinger
Academy of Students of Pharmacy Patient Counseling Award Carolyn Sharpe
Osco Drug Scholarship Donna Faber Nikki Herlich Kirsten Maloney Joseph Nguyen Carolyn Sharpe
Bette Cipolle and Rosann Sula Memorial Scholarship Michelle Bryson C.P. van Schaack Award in Chemistry Lamya Arman Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Scholarship (Walgreen Company) Brittany Allen CVS/Pharmacy Scholarship Lindsey Koerten Bethany Daily Daniel Limoges Tommy Chiampas Wen-Li Lao
Nathan Stoller Scholarship and Robert I. Zeman Scholarship Kimberly Kauzlarich
Pharmacists Mutual Companies Scholarship Shirley Yu Phi Delta Chi Memorial Award Patrick Fleming Reed G. Henninger Scholarship in Pharmacy Eucharia Igwe
Edward F. Skorczewski Jr., Memorial Award (Polish American Pharmacists Association) Yana Blekhman
Reuben M. Reifler, MD and Tillie T. Reifler Scholarship for Pharmacy Students Monica Gichuru-Wiley Rho Chi Prize Krista Williams
Edward S. and Josephine E. Mika Scholarship Daniel Wojenski
Robert J. Ireland Scholarship Catherine Freeman
FMC Award of Excellence Kristian Campbell
Robin Nash Clinical Pharmacy Scholarship Tammy Nguyen
George L. Webster Professional Service Award Daniel Wojenski Glenn S. Kraiss Pharmacy Leadership Scholarship Kathleen Tsai
Samuel Shkolnik Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence Award (Delta Kappa Sigma Alumni Chapter of Rho Pi Phi Pharmacy Fraternity) Lynn Tran
Harry Goldstine Scholarship Fund Morolake Olaleye
Urban Health Program Alumni Scholarship Nicole Avant
Herbert Martin Emig Award in Clinical Pharmacy Jennifer Splawski
W.E. van Doren Scholars Biopharmaceutical Sciences: Merideth Gilley and Ephrem Gebremedhin Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy: Su-Young Choi and Cynthia Muthusi Pharmacy Administration: Chintan Patel and Joseph Zorek Pharmacy Practice: Jennifer Hlubocky and Alina Meile
Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists Student Award Janet Hinkes I.B. Crystal Memorial Award Matthew Brew Samantha Cabrera Jin Han Alexander Kantorovich John Komenda Sarah Larison Yee Ming Lee Jeremy Raschke Sarah Sullivan James Williams Nicholas Zupec IPhA Foundation Leadership Award Jessica Jacobson
Walgreens Diversity Scholarship Benjamin Le
... Walgreens Health Initiatives Managed Care Award Zoe Clancy Wal-Mart Pharmacy Scholarship Carly Bates
Walgreens Zora Kosanovich Memorial Scholarship Megan Adami
Jack and Margaret Stites Memorial Scholarship Nicole Avant Joseph Anton Koren Memorial Scholarship Tatyana Lawrecki Josephine J. Margraff Scholarship Tao Bai Kappa Psi Scholarship Stewart Chung Candy Ng Joseph Nguyen Lilly Achievement Award Tommy Chiampas Merck Award Awais Butt Tim Harrison Melissa McInnis Shirley Yu
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Chancellor’s honor awarded to 19 COP students
First-year professional student Catherine Freeman accepts the Robert J. Ireland Scholarship from Debra (left) and Carole Ireland (right). This award was established in honor of the late Robert J. Ireland, BS ’57, and provides support to a pharmacy student of African-American descent who is passionate about the sciences and dedicated to the community.
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