Recent Graduate Awards

UK Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Students Selected to Present at AAPS

Yongmei Pan, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Chang Guo Zhan, has been selected to participate in the 2007 AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Drug Design and Discovery sponsored by Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Anshul Gupte, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Mike Jay, has been selected to participate in the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Biotechnology sponsored by Pfizer Global Biologics.

Ravindra Tejwani, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Brad Anderson, has been selected to participate in the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in PDD & PT.

Aubrey-Medendorp, Banks, and Abdul Hameed Receive Travel Awards for AAPS Meeting

Clare Aubrey-Medendorp and Stan Banks were recipients of the Peter G. Glavinos Jr., Ph.D. Graduate Student Travel Awards. Named in memory of the late Dr. Peter G. Glavinos Jr., a 1991 graduate of the UK program, the purpose of these awards is to provide one or two outstanding students in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program with the opportunity to present their research at a major national meeting.

Aubrey-Medendorp, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Tonglei Li, will present her poster, “A Novel Method for Measuring Surface Energy with the Atomic Force Microscope,” on Wednesday, Nov. 14. Banks, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Audra Stinchcomb, will present his poster, “Microneedle Enhanced Skin Permeation of Naltrexone Hydrochloride in Human Volunteers,” on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

Mohamed Abdul Hameed received one of four 2007 Genetech Travelships for the AAPS Meeting. Abdul Hameed, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Chang Guo Zhan, will present his poster, “Structure-Based Design and Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of 3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Protein Kinase-1 (PDK1),” on Monday, Nov. 12.

AFPE First Year Graduate School Scholarship Awarded to Birket

Susan Birket, Pharm.D., was awarded the 2007 Kappa Epsilon-Pfizer-AFPE-Nellie Wakeman First- Year Graduate School Scholarship. The purpose of the award is to encourage an outstanding pharmacy school graduate to purse an advanced degree in the pharmaceutical sciences.

Birket, a first-year student in the Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics track of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D program, is originally from McPherson, Kansas. She received her doctor of pharmacy degree in May 2007 from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.

Narayanaswami Receives Predoctoral Fellowship

Vidya Narayanaswami, a student in the University of Kentucky Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, has received a $21,000 predoctoral fellowship from the Great Rivers Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association. The fellowship is for two years.

Narayanaswami is originally from Mumbai, India, and has a pharmaceutical sciences degree from the University of Mumbai Institute of Chemical Technology. She is in her third year of the pharmaceutical sciences graduate program and her faculty mentor at UK is Linda Dwoskin, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences.

The Great Rivers Affiliate of the American Heart Association serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The objective of the predoctoral fellowship is to help students initiate careers in cardiovascular or stroke research by providing research assistance and training. The science focus of the fellowship is research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke or to related clinical basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems.

Hollis and Howard Receive NSF/IGERT Fellowship

Christin Hollis and Melissa Howard, students in the UK Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, have been awarded NSF/IGERT fellowships.

Hollis, originally from Indonesia, has a chemical engineering degree from UK and Howard is a Louisville, Ky. native and has a biochemistry degree from Asbury College.

The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, supported by the National Science Foundation, is a multidisciplinary doctoral fellowship program for students interested in the science and engineering of bioactive interfaces and devices. Faculty members involved in the IGERT program are from the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, the Center for Biomedical Engineering and the College of Pharmacy. Graduate students participating in the IGERT program receive their Ph.D. in one of these areas while benefiting from a host of multidisciplinary education and research activities in bioactive interfaces and devices.