Awards and Recognitions Dr. Amy Kang has been appointed to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Specialty Council. In this role, she will be involved in providing recommendations on national board certification and recertification standards, as well as developing examination content. Dr. Keykavous Parang has been appointed to the Editorial Board of
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
Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) has awarded Dr. Gary Fong and his collaborator, Dr. Pamala Lee at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, an Educational Grant totaling $2,500. The project, titled “Developing a Climate and Sustainability Education Model for ID Pharmacists”, will create interactive and educational modules and a practical calculator to help clinicians further understand the
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
Dr. Razan Orfali, PhD ’21, received the Best Poster Award at the Ion Channel Modulation Symposium (ICMS) for her poster “Dual Activation of TMEM16A and TRPV4 by Eact: A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Cystic Fibrosis?”. You can view the poster here. Held annually in Cambridge, England, this international conference is attended by leading researchers in
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. 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
Melinta Theraputics has awarded an Industry Grant to Dr. Gary Fong for his proposal, “Identifying the Need and Potential Role for a Novel Long-Acting Antifungal in a Diverse, Underserved Population“ , totaling $19,836. Dr. Fong will be working alongside his Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Scott Filler, Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at
Amelia Monfared, PharmD candidate ’25, has been honored with the Dr. Elliot S. Vesell Award for her abstract in the area of pharmacogenomics. Given by the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP), the award recognizes Amelia as a top student researcher in the area of pharmacogenomics. Her project abstract, “Analyzing the Association Between Single Nucleotide