School of Pharmacy Celebrates Gratitude Month |
"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy." - Ralph Blum In the month of November, the School of Pharmacy community is focusing on gratitude and giving thanks. Boards are set up on both campuses to allow faculty, staff and students to pause, reflect and express gratitude for the blessings in their lives. As the holiday season approaches, we encourage you to embrace the spirit of thankfulness throughout this month and beyond. |
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Students from the School of Pharmacy gave student leaders hands-on training in administering Narcan, the nasal spray form of naloxone.
Combining prevention with intervention, the University of Mississippi is working with student leadership and the Mississippi Attorney General's Office to address opioid overdose.
On Oct. 5, the William Magee Center for AOD and Wellness Education trained nearly 100 Ole Miss student leaders in the dangers of fentanyl and how to use naloxone to combat an overdose. Due to rising opioid overdoses on college campuses across the nation, the Mississippi State Department of Health is allocating naloxone to universities in the state. |
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School of Pharmacy alumna Lauren Lyles-Stolz (bottom row; second from left) was among eight university alumni recently recognized by the Ole Miss Alumni Association as part of Homecoming 2023. Lyles-Stolz, of Alexandria, Virginia, received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, which honors alumni who have shown exemplary leadership throughout their first 15 years of alumni status.
She received her bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 2013 and her Pharm.D. in 2016. |
For the first time, a member of the UM pharmacy faculty has received the prestigious National Institutes of Health's Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigators' Research Award.
Sudeshna Roy, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences, is the recipient of the R35 MIRA award. The grant provides a total of $1.2 million over five years for the Roy Laboratory to study fluorinated alkenes and explore the untapped potential of fluorinated alkenes.
"These molecules serve as versatile building blocks for blockbuster drugs, agrochemicals and polymers such as Teflon," Roy said. "We wanted to study this topic because of the massive potential impact. Half of all blockbuster drugs contain fluorine." |
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A University of Mississippi-invented technology focused on imaging chronic pain has been exclusively licensed for further development by pharmaceutical company PainVox. The first-of-its-kind radiopharmaceutical, or radiotracer, has the potential to identify precise origin sites of chronic pain across a number of conditions.
"Many patients have undergone multiple treatment options, multiple surgeries and many imaging and diagnostic techniques where they haven't been able to be treated or relieved of their pain," said Christopher McCurdy, who helped develop the technology as an Ole Miss pharmacy professor and researcher. "This really could impact chronic pain patients more than any technology we've seen up to this point." |
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As part of a Small Business Technology Transfer Grant, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy distinguished professor Michael Repka has received funding to study steroid-eluting dissolvable threads for treatment of rhinitis. The National Science Foundation awarded the one-year, $255,045 grant to SimplyBreathe, LLC, with the School of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery receiving a sub award of $149,917.
"Rhinitis has a tremendous effect on an individual's quality of life," Repka said. "There is a total of 77 million Americans addressable in the U.S. market that can be treated with the steroid-eluting thread and thus not have to endure surgery, chronic drug therapy or immunotherapy, as this would be placed in a quick, in-office procedure." |
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Professor Michael Repka has been announced as recipient of the prestigious 2023 Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award.
This recognition by the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation is an acknowledgement of Repka's efforts in the field of pharmaceutical excipients, or inactive medicinal ingredients.
"Receiving IPEC's highest award means that we at the School of Pharmacy have had a positive impact in drug delivery systems on the international stage," said Repka, distinguished professor of pharmaceutics and drug delivery. "To join the past award winners, who are pioneers in the field of pharmaceutical excipient research, is extremely humbling." |
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Congratulations to Bob Lomenick, alumnus and preceptor, for being named a CPESN Luminary of the Year.
Congratulations to Ikhlas Khan, NCNPR director, for winning the USP Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Standards by a USP Expert Body. Congratulations to Yinan Huang for receiving the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement Faculty Development Grant.
Congratulations to Dewey Garner, professor emeritus of pharmacy administration, for receiving the Legacy Award at Jones College. Congratulations to Amin Akbari Ahangar, research assistant in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences, for being awarded the 2023-2024 Institute for Data Science and AI Fellowship.
Congratulations to Suman Chandra, Hemant Lata, Chandrani Gon Majumdar and Harold Sneed for winning October's Staff Power Teamwork Award for their efforts in helping with cannabis growing and testing for the NIDA project. Congratulations to Matthew Becker for being selected to attend a workshop at Arizona State University on Russia and Eastern Europe. |
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Nov. 4 School of Pharmacy Tailgate (UM vs. TEXAS A&M) |
Dec. 4 ASHP Mississippi Reception
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Dec. 8 SOP Winter Celebration |
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We celebrated American Pharmacists Month by highlighting pharmacists like Jennifer Hockings throughout the month of October. |
| The APhA-ASP student chapter hosted "Flu on Wheels" at the Jackson School of Pharmacy building in collaboration with UMMC Student-Employee Health. |
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| The School of Pharmacy enjoyed tailgating with the phamily during Homecoming 2023. |
| Pharmacy students administered flu shots across campus in October as part of Operation Immunization. |
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The School of Pharmacy welcomed Dr. Julie Johnson (center) as the featured speaker at the 2023 Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture. This year's lecture was hosted by the Department of Pharmacy Practice and was held at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 20. |
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