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February
28, 2007
In this
issue…
· Message from the Chair
· Groundbreaking for New UK College of Pharmacy is
April 13
· Attend the 2007 UK Pharmaceutical Sciences
Postgraduate Conference
· Stella to Present Swintosky
Lecture
· Chemistry Symposium Coming to Lexington in June
· International Symposium on Microencapsulation
· Department Names New Division Directors
· Mumper Receives Great Teacher Award
· Aubrey-Medendorp Receives Predoctoral Fellowship
· Joguparthi to Attend PS World Conference in Amsterdam
· Graduate Student Profiles – Stan Banks and Darshini Trivedi
· UK Alumnus Elected AAPS Treasurer
· Alumni Profiles – Kim Brouwer
and Munir Hussain
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Many changes are
happening at the College and within the Department. We are entering the
final stages of design for our new building and a groundbreaking ceremony
will be April 13, the week prior to our postgraduate conference.
Another exciting
development is the announcement of the transition of the Center for
Pharmaceutical Science & Technology (CPST) to a private business. The
idea, according to Len Heller,
UK’s
Vice President for Commercialization and Economic Development, is to create
a more flexible and competitive business named Coldstream
Laboratories. However, the company will maintain close ties to the College of Pharmacy’s education and
research mission. Mike Jay has done an outstanding job leading the
CPST for the past nine years and has decided to return to his role as
full-time faculty member as the CPST makes this move. Joseph Wyse, Ph.D., a
UK
alumnus who has been working as the CPST managing director and who has 17
years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, has assumed the
position of president. Coldstream
Laboratories will be a subsidiary of Kentucky Technology Inc., UK’s for-profit company that invests
in and operates businesses and real estate such as the Coldstream
Research Campus, and develops and markets UK’s research
discoveries.
We hope to see you in Lexington for the
2007 Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Conference on April 19-21.
In addition to our keynote speaker, William N. Charman
of Victorian College of Pharmacy in Australia, we will induct our
first two Outstanding Alumni: Kim Brouwer (2006)
and Munir Hussain
(2007). Please join us in April to honor Kim and Munir
as well as see plans for the new Pharmacy building.
Sincerely,
Patrick McNamara, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Kentucky
College of Pharmacy
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Groundbreaking for New UK College of Pharmacy
is April 13
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The UK College of
Pharmacy will hold a celebration and ceremonial groundbreaking for the new
academic and research building on Friday, April 13, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
in the Biomedical Biological Sciences Research Building (BBSRB) atrium.
Invited speakers and special guests will be Dean Kenneth B. Roberts,
President Lee T. Todd Jr., UK
Provost Kumble R. Subbaswamy
and Dr. Michael Karpf, Executive Vice President
for Health Affairs at UK.
For more information, visit the Building Update site at http://www.mc.uky.edu/pharmacy/building.html.
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Attend the 2007 UK Pharmaceutical Sciences
Postgraduate Conference
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The 2007 University of Kentucky
Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Conference will be
April 19-21 at the UK
campus in Lexington.
Don’t forget the registration deadline for the event is March
29. Please contact Catina Rossoll, cross2@email.uky.edu, for registration and
info.
The three-day event
will begin with an evening welcome reception April 19. Scientific sessions
will be held April 20 at the UK
campus and a banquet will be that evening at Fasig-Tipton
in Lexington.
The conference will conclude on April 21 with a Day at the Races at Keeneland Race Course. READ MORE
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Stella to Present Swintosky
Lecture
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Valentino Stella,
Ph.D., a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas,
will present the 2007 Swintosky Distinguished
Lecture sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy at 11
a.m. April 5, in 201 College of Nursing Building.
Dr. Stella will
present, “A Case for Prodrugs” to
faculty, students and guests as part of the lecture series which began in
1980 to honor Dean Emeritus Joseph V. Swintosky,
who was dean of the UK College of Pharmacy from 1967 to 1987. READ MORE
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Chemistry Symposium Comes to Lexington in June
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The Midwest Organic
Solid State Chemistry Symposium (MOSSC) will be held for the first time in Lexington on June 8
and 9. Conference chairs for the event are Tonglei Li, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UK
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Carol Brock, Ph.D., professor,
in the UK Department of Chemistry.
MOSSCS provides
opportunities to exchange ideas and research results pertaining to the
organic solid state in an informal atmosphere with an emphasis on
presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral associates. Invited
lecturers and reports of research on organic materials dealing with crystal
engineering, mixed crystals, polymorphism, solid state synthesis and
reactivity, host-guest chemistry, crystal growth, optical behavior,
transport properties, pharmaceuticals, molecular recognition, critical
behavior and related properties all are commonly presented at the MOSSC
Symposium. For more information, contact Dr. Li at Tonglei@uky.edu.
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International Symposium on Microencapsulation is Sept. 9-12
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The University of
Kentucky College of Pharmacy cordially invites you to attend the 16th
International Symposium on Microencapsulation.
The symposium will take place Sept. 9-12, 2007, in Lexington, Ky.
Registration, directions and information on accommodations are available at
the Microencapsulation Symposium homepage at www.mc.uky.edu/cpst/micro16/.
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Names New Division Directors
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The University of
Kentucky College of Pharmacy has established two new divisions and named
division directors in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, said Patrick
McNamara, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department.
Jurgen Rohr, Ph.D., professor, has been named
director of the Division of Drug Discovery, and Brad Anderson, Ph.D., professor, has been
named director of the Division of Drug Development. READ MORE
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Mumper Receives Great
Teacher Award from UK
Alumni Association
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University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy associate
professor Russ Mumper, Ph.D.,
has been named one of the recipients of the 2007 Great Teacher Awards given
each year by the UK Alumni Association to honor excellence in the
classroom.
Six UK professors were honored at the Great
Teacher Award reception and dinner at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington on Feb. 20. The recipients
also were recognized that evening during the UK men’s basketball game
in Rupp Arena. READ MORE
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Aubrey-Medendorp
Receives Predoctoral Fellowship
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Clare Aubrey-Medendorp, a student in the University of Kentucky
Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, has
received a $20,000 predoctoral fellowship in pharmaceutics
from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA). The fellowship is for two years. Aubrey-Medendorp is originally from Georgetown,
Ky., and has a biomedical engineering
degree from the University
of Tennessee. She is
in her fourth year of the pharmaceutical sciences graduate program and her
faculty mentor at UK
is Tonglei Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of
pharmaceutical sciences. READ MORE
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Joguparthi to Attend
Pharmaceutical Sciences World Conference in Amsterdam
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Vijay Joguparthi, a student in the University
of Kentucky Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate
Program, has been selected to attend and present an
abstract at the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress in Amsterdam on April 22-25, 2007. Dean
Kenneth Roberts announced funding for the conference would be provided by
the College to a graduate student and an internal competition was held with
Joguparthi chosen to attend.
Joguparthi will present, “Physicochemical
approaches toward improving liposomal loading and
retention of hydrophobic weak acids.” His faculty mentor is Brad
Anderson, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences. READ MORE
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GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILES
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Stan Banks is a fourth-year student in the
Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program studying pharmaceutics and drug
delivery with faculty mentor, Audra Stinchcomb,
Ph.D., associate professor.
A native of Owenton, Ky., Banks
graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Grinnell College,
Grinnell, Iowa,
and received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 2001 from Kentucky State University.
Upon completion of his chemistry degree, he worked as a quality control
analyst in the Center for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
(CPST). After working in the CPST for more than two years, he began
the graduate program.
Banks’ work
focuses on the treatment of alcohol and opiate addiction via transdermal drug delivery, and his dissertation is
titled, “Optimization of Microneedles Systems
for Transdermal Delivery of Naltrexone
and 6-β-Naltrexol Salts.”
Darshini Trivedi is a fifth year graduate student
in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program. Her faculty mentor is
Charles Loftin, Ph.D., assistant professor and her primary research focus
is the physiological and pathological functions of enzymes known as the cyclooxygenases (COX-1 and COX-2). These enzymes are
targets of widely used medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen and celecoxib.
Trivedi is a North Carolina “Tar Heel” native.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from India and came to UK and began the graduate
program in 2002. Beginning June 1, she will be pursuing postdoctoral
fellowship at the University
of Pennsylvania,
under the direction of Dr. Garret Fitzgerald, renowned in the field of prostanoids and cardiovascular disease. Her research
will focus on studying the role of prostanoids
and their receptors in cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and restenosis, utilizing a variety of animal models. In
the future, she also would like to be a part of the academic community
while contributing to scientific research.
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UK Alumnus Elected
AAPS Treasurer
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Philip R.
Mayer, Ph.D., (UKCOP, 1976, 1981) assistant vice president of clinical
pharmacology at Wyeth Research, has been elected to a three-year term as
treasurer of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).
Dr. Mayer received his Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy in 1976 and
his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science in 1981 from the UK College of
Pharmacy. He also continues to serve as an adjunct professor in the
Industrial and Physical Pharmacy Department at Purdue University School of
Pharmacy.
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The Outstanding UK
Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program Alumni Awards will be presented on
April 20, during a banquet in conjunction with the 2007 Postgraduate
Conference to Munir Hussain,
Ph.D., and Kim Brouwer,
Ph.D. Both scientists are 1983 graduates of the UK Pharmaceutical Sciences
program.
Kim Brouwer, Ph.D., currently serves as the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor and Chair of the
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the School of Pharmacy
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. A native of Portland
Ore., and earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in pharmacy in 1978 from Oregon
State University.
She received a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree
from the UK College of Pharmacy and completed a pharmacy residency at the
UK Medical Center in 1981 before completing her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical
sciences in 1983. READ MORE
Munir Hussain, Ph.D., currently is a senior research
fellow at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in New Brunswick, N.J.
A native of Iraq, Dr. Hussain earned a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy
in 1970 from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Baghdad.
At UK,
he worked with professor emeritus Dr. George Digenis
on his thesis titled, “Development of Methodology for Preparation of
11C-Labeled Phenethylamine-type Compounds and
Studies on the Effect of Amphetamine on Brain Efflux of Radiolabeled
Phenethylamine.” READ MORE
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We are trying to catch
up with former graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and former
faculty. Please send current contact information of folks you knew at UK and are
still in close contact with to pschair@email.uky.edu
and of course please forward your friends and colleagues this
newsletter.
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