Congratulations to Wei Li, PhD, who has been named Chair-elect of the ASPET Division for Drug Discovery and Development. He will also serve as Secretary/Treasurer of the division from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, a position he was elected to in 2024. Dr. Li’s tenure as Chair will begin on July 1, 2026,… Read More
Congratulations to Ishita Kathuria, a graduate student in Dr. Bhupesh Singla’s lab, on being awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship! This fellowship aims to enhance integrated research and clinical training for promising students enrolled in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree programs who aspire to careers as scientists, physician-scientists, clinician-scientists, or related fields focused… Read More
Kelli Adeleye, a 5th-year graduate student in Dr. Wei Li’s lab, was awarded the Alma Hal Reagan Fellowship for the second year in a row! With the award money, Adeleye plans to advance her research on SP-1-39, a promising colchicine-binding site inhibitor. This funding will support further studies to assess its efficacy in drug-resistant and… Read More
Graduate student Nelufar Yasmen receives Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience! The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) presents the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) to recognize outstanding young scientists and support their participation in the SfN annual meeting. This award is designed to help trainees advance their careers by allowing them to present… Read More
UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy faculty have been diligently working on publishing new research, with nearly 20 papers recently published since April 2024. Explore their work below. Recently Published Faculty Papers (April–June 2024) The Use of Intraperitoneal Ampicillin in a Patient With Enterococcus faecalis PeritonitisDr. Joanna Q Hudson, Dr. Anna Jacobs, et al.J Pharm Pract.… Read More
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Bernd Meibohm, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, for being named a Highly Ranked Scholar in Pharmacokinetics by ScholarGPS! Among nearly 175,000 worldwide researchers in pharmacokinetics, Dr. Meibohm ranked No. 33, or in the top .05%. The… Read More
We were grateful to have heard the important research of Dr. Christopher McCurdy, winner of the Duane D. Miller Lectureship, on Monday, June 3rd. McCurdy delivered a lecture titled “Sigma Receptor Ligands from Conception to the Clinic: Illumination of an Enigma.” Dr. McCurdy is a professor and holds The Frank A. Duckworth Eminent Scholar Chair… Read More
Congratulations to Kelli Adeleye, a graduate student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, who received the Duane D. Miller Award in Drug Discovery on Monday for her significant research contributions to advancing health as a graduate student at the College. Adeleye’s research focuses on characterizing the biological activity of novel colchicine-binding site inhibitors. Colchicine-binding site… Read More
Congratulations to UT Health Science Center faculty Dennis Leo, assistant professor, UTHSC College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Jonathan H. Jaggar, endowed professor UTHSC College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, who were acknowledged by the American Physiological Society for their distinction in scholarship in the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology for their article… Read More
Associate Professor Dr. Udai Singh from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences has been awarded the 2024 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Laboratory Travel Grant. The grant will support Dr. Singh and his team’s attendance at the AAI Annual Meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2024TM in Chicago, IL, from May 3-7, 2024. At the AAI Annual Meeting, Dr. Singh and… Read More
