Three current College of Pharmacy students, Zachary Coleman, Misha McCleary, and Alexis Joneswere awarded a 2017 Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy Scholarship. Cardinal Health is committed to supporting programs such as the one at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center that progresses the science and practice of nuclear pharmacy. Forty-Four students from the UTHSC College… Read More
The Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) hosted their national meeting in Las Vegas, NV this summer. At this year’s meeting Rachel Barr (P4-Knoxville) was appointed SNPhA’s National Operation Immunizations Chair. She will serve a one-year term and her responsibilities include promoting and encouraging all of the SNPhA chapters to participate in immunization efforts within the community through… Read More
Pallabita Chowdhury, MS, a third year PhD student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, was named the winner of the Biomaterials Day Poster Award at Biomaterials Day on the campus of Vanderbilt University. She was selected to give a “Rapid Fire Talk” on her abstract titled “Docetaxel Loaded Magnetic Nanoparticles for Overcoming Drug Resistance in… Read More
Jeffrey M. Rybak, PharmD, Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Rogers Lab, was recently awarded an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Research Institute Futures Grant for Fellows and Junior Investigators. The ACCP RI Futures Grants are mentored awards designed to provide support for the development of research skills among fellows and early-career ACCP members… Read More
The Department of Clinical Pharmacy has changed its name to the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science. The name change was implemented to a more contemporary name consistent with other colleges of pharmacy and emphasize the growth of the research within the department. “Clinical Pharmacy adequately describes the activities of our education practitioner faculty… Read More
The UTHSC College of Pharmacy welcomes Dr. Michael Veve, PharmD, to the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science. Dr. Veve is originally from New York and completed his PharmD at the Albany College of Pharmacy, where he first began infectious diseases research under Drs. Nimish Patel and… Read More
The second annual University of Tennessee Fungal Pathogens Group Research Conference was held July 26-28 at the Graduate Oxford Hotel in Oxford, Mississippi. The Fungal Pathogens Group is part of the UT Center of Excellence in Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics (CPET) housed within the College of Pharmacy and includes the laboratories of Drs. Glen Palmer, Brian… Read More
Written by Peggy Reisser The College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is now ranked Number 23 in annual research funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to a new listing of 141 member institutions published by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The ranking for federal fiscal year 2016… Read More
On Sunday, July 16, Dean Marie Chisholm-Burns welcomed over 200 guests to the Grand Ole Opry House for the UTHSC College of Pharmacy Reception during the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting in Nashville. The reception was held on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry House and guests were treated to… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy hosted members of the Direct Admissions program at its Memphis campus for a retreat on Tuesday, July 11. Students learned more about the college from current students and had the chance for some hands-on experiences, including time in a compounding lab. The Direct Admissions program… Read More
