students Student Updates Jennifer-Ann Bayan, PhD candidate, was featured in the Investing in Recovery and Discovery report by United for Medical Research. Anna Deng, PharmD candidate, won the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists Regional Chapter Challenge on behalf of the USC chapter at the Region 8 Midyear Regional Meeting in Albuquerque, NM.
Vivian Galicia, PhD candidate, won first prize for her oral presentation entitled, “Activation of Cancer Stem Cells in Hepatic Pten Deficient Mice Requires Liver Injury,” at the 13th Annual Pathology Conference in Dana Point in February. Robert Mo, PhD candidate, received a renewal of his American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Ni Zeng, PhD candidate, won the top prize for her poster presentation entitled, “PTEN Regulates Pancreatic Beta Cell Proliferation and Aging Process,” at the 13th Annual Pathology Conference in Dana Point in February.
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USC students dominated at this year’s International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 15th Annual Meeting, held in Atlanta, Georgia in May. Danielle Colayco, MS (’10), PharmD (’08), won a Best Student Poster designation for her project entitled “Association between Glycosylated Hemoglobin and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Nested Case-Control Study”. Other students presenting posters included: Jae An, PhD candidate Soo Bang, PhD candidate Jerry Chang, PhD candidate Karen Chu, PhD candidate Janice Chung, PhD candidate Yao Ding, PhD candidate Vaidyanathan Ganapathy, PhD candidate Ning Yan Gu, PhD candidate Aniket Kawatkar, PhD candidate Jane Pai, PhD candidate Jiat Poon, PhD candidate Nazia Rashid, MS candidate Elizabeth Schwartz, PhD candidate Janet Shin, PhD candidate Dana Stafkey-Mailey, PhD candidate Hae Sun Suh, PhD candidate Jae Suh, PhD candidate Adam Turpcu, PhD candidate Jennifer Wang, MS candidate Phillip Wiegand, MS candidate
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Three School of Pharmacy students were recognized at the Clinical Osteoporosis 2010 Symposium taking place in March in San Antonio, Texas. Pharmacy students Thu Huynh, Tasneem Sheikh and Bryan Coleman (pictured here) received a Young Investigator award for their poster entitled “Community Based Osteoporosis Screening and Education of Ethnically Diverse Populations by Pharmacy Students,” which illustrates the role that pharmacy students can play in the screening process, allowing patients to get care for osteoporosis before it becomes severe, or preventing onset all together. The students have been working with associate professors Cynthia Lieu (on left) and Kathleen Besinque on this project.