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pharmacy R. Pete Vanderveen
SENIOR EDITOR
Kukla Vera
dean
Director of Public Relations
kvera@pharmacy.usc.edu
Board of Councilors
CONTRIBUTORS
Chairman
Ronald Belville
Mary Wackerman
William A. Heeres
Director of Major Gifts
mwacker@usc.edu
Chairman Elect
Jennifer Watson
Executive Director of Development
freeh@usc.edu WRITERs
Gabrielle Olya design
Etch Creative
INFLUENCE & IMPACT
Key DESIGNer
Jenny Yee
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ryan Ball Chris Jones Isaac Mora Mike Powers Robert Roberts Lee Salem Glen Tao Sean Tom ILLUSTRATION
7 Textbook on Drug Design
8 Impact of Moving Select
Frank Harris
Please address your comments, opinions and questions to:
Kukla Vera
Director of Public Relations
USC School of Pharmacy 1985 Zonal Avenue— PSC 700 Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
phone: 323.442.3497 email: kvera@pharmacy.usc.edu www.usc.edu/schools/pharmacy
to Tackle HIV
Drugs behind the Counter
8 Paying for Cancer Drugs 8 Raising Life Expectancy Saves Big Money
9 Biology behind Behavior 9 Novel Theory on Aging
Have you visited the new research section on the School of Pharmacy website? Check it out at http://pharmacyresearch.usc.edu/
IN PICTURES
14 Alumni & Friends
Homecoming weekend and the annual golf outing
2 8 Students
Awards, outreach and events
MOVING FORWARD
KEEPING UP
2 Appointments and Awards 5 New Leadership Team 10 Quintiles Gift
17 Alumni
1 1 Introducing the New
20 Titus Family Department…
12 Doubling School Footprint
2 4 Department of
for Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation
International Center for Regulatory Science
in the Safety Net
Updates, remembrances and staying connected
18 Across the Globe
Sharing knowledge and skills with colleagues and new friends …of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics & Policy
Pharmacology… …and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
New Board of Councilors Member: Roslyn Ellison Blake, PharmD (’92)
Theresa Agboh-Taylor Melvin F. Baron Gale Bensussen Roslyn Ellison Blake David Breslow Rosemarie Christopher Kermit R. Crawford Scott Evans Judy Flesh Rosenberg Eileen Goodis K. Robert Hahn William A. Heeres Ron Jung Keith LaFond Kiran Majmudar Oscar Pallares Raymond T. Poon Denis Portaro Wanda L. Sawyers Wayne T. Seltzer Richard Shinar Tim K. Siu Martin Solberg Holly A. Strom DeWight Titus Brad Trom Associate Members
Gavin S. Herbert Gerhard Renner Arthur M. Ulene Ex-Officio Members
Dolly Harris C.L. Max Nikias Jim Roache