University of Georgia Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

PBS Ranks 4th in Research Dollars in FY 2012.

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2012 Graduates

Congratulations to the most recent graduates from PBS: Phillip Callihan, Chen Buyun, Kolisetty Narendrababu, Lu Xiao, Jason Mock.

New lectureship established in honor of Distinguished Professor David Chu

"Nucleosides: A Fertile Field for Drug Discovery" is the first lecture of the new annual Chu Lectureship Series hosted by the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. The presentation was made by Jack Secrist, president and CEO of Southern Research, on Wednesday, March 28, at 11 a.m. in Pharmacy South 201.  more

New Bachelors of Science Program in PBS

The Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy will soon be offering a Bachelors of Science program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The inaugural class of B.S. students will begin in Fall 2013. For more information click here.

Brian Cummings, Associate Professor

Appointed as the new Director of the UGA Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program.

• In College of Pharmacy Newsletter, March 2012

Nine graduate students named UGA ARCS Scholars

The Atlanta chapter of the ARCS Foundation Inc. recently awarded $70,000 to nine UGA doctoral students in biomedical and health sciences, one of whom received a special $10,000 grant for global health research abroad. The presentations were made at an awards ceremony held in Atlanta.

The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Students) Foundation was founded in Los Angeles in 1958, and is dedicated to helping meet the country’s needs for scientists and engineers by providing scholarships to academically outstanding university students. UGA recipients were selected through the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute.  This year’s ARCS Scholars are: Phillip Callihan of Atlanta, Jason Mock of Dalton, Jenna Oberstaller of Spartanburg, S.C., Kathryn Porter of Stockbridge, Bonney Reed-Knight from Habersham County, Julie Rushmore of Alpharetta, Alecia Septer of Gahanna, Ohio, Timothy Shaw of Johns Creek (this year’s $10,000 ARCS Global Impact Grant recipient) and Katherine Verbist of Clarksville, Tenn.

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Raj Govindarajan receives GCC Cancer Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Raj for his recent Georgia Cancer Coalition Cancer Research Award. His proposal is entitled “Let-7 Regulation of Ribonucleotide Reductase and Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer.” The award will be for $50,000 for a one-year period.

Faculty Highlights: Recent Funding Awards

Congratulations to our faculty who have recently received grants or other external funding

Dr. Anthony Capomacchia received $5,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for minority graduate student recruitment expenses. With this award, five minority graduate students will receive fellowships of $21,000 each, set up in a private account administered by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME). The five new Sloan Scholars are enrolled in five different graduate programs at UGA, including toxicology, cell biology, statistics, plant biology, and microbiology.

Dr. Mandi Murph was awarded The American Cancer Society for Research Scholar Grant for her project entitled, "Investigating lysophospholipid signaling and metabolism on melanoma survival." She also recently received $3,250 from the Chevron Chemical Co. to test proprietary compounds for the company. 

Dr. Elieen Kennedy received more than $570,600 over the next three years from a National Cancer Institute Transition Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health to look at specific mechanisms related to breast cancer. For more information and full story by Shelia Roberson, click here. Kennedy also recently received $188,360 from the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled, "Probing the role of AKAPS in breast cancer using stapled peptide inhibitors."

Dr. Aaron Beedle was awarded $22,500 as part of an internal pilot project funded by Dr. Steve Dalton's NIGMS UGA Pluripotent Stem Cell Program Project. The project, entitled "Lineage-Specific Glycan Expression and Function in Muscular Dystrophies and Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation," is a collaboration between co-principal investigators Dr. Beedle and Drs. Richard Steet and Kazuhiro Aoki of the UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.