Dr. Sun “Coco” Yang and her collaborators have been awarded a $150,000 Opportunity Pool Grant by the Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics (MPRINT) Hub, supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The study, “Impact of Vitamin D on Gut Microbiome and Metabolome Among Pediatric Oncology Patients”, aims to
Dr. Amy Kang has been appointed to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties’ (BPS) Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Specialty Council. Her appointment to this council will span a three year term (2025-2027), during which time she will provide recommendations on national Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Specialty certification and recertification standards and developing examination content. “Being appointed to this committee
Awards and Recognitions Dr. Jeff Goad was installed as President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on July 1, 2024. Quotables (Faculty in the News) Dr. Cintia Citterio was quoted in Endocrine News: 2024 Researchers Roundtable, discussing endocrine science with the other 2024 Early Investigator Award winners. Dr. Jeff Goad was quoted in a Pharmacy Times
Chapman University’s Dr. Jerika Lam and CSHP‘s CEO Dr. Loriann De Martini co-published “A mixed methods evaluation of pharmacists’ readiness to provide long-acting injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in California” in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). The study investigated the underlying causes for why HIV prevention medication, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), isn’t widely used
Grants Dr. Ajay Sharma has received a grant from the National Eye Institute for his project, “Targeting the multicellular process of corneal regeneration and vascularization to enhance outcome of cornea transplantation”. He, alongside other investigators, will test the effect of topical application of a recombinant protein Mitsugumin 53 (MG53) on enhancing the success of corneal
Dr. Rachita Sumbria has been awarded an NIH R01 grant from the National Institute of Aging, receiving $1.71 million over the next 5 years for research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapeutics. This project is founded on data from her lab’s earlier successes in modifying erythropoietin (EPO) to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) with promising results
Dr. Jennifer Totonchy has been invited to serve as a regular member of the HIV Coinfections and HIV Associated Cancers (HCAC) Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her appointment will span a four-year term, where she will review applications related to HIV associated diseases, such as on pathogen coinfections with HIV, opportunistic
Dr. Ajay Sharma has received a grant from the National Eye Institute for his project, “Targeting the multicellular process of corneal regeneration and vascularization to enhance outcome of cornea transplantation”. He, alongside investigators from the University of Virginia and the Ohio State University, will test the effect of topical application of a recombinant protein Mitsugumin