Seven UF College of Pharmacy trainees win ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award

Seven trainees from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy were awarded Presidential Trainee Awards from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, or ASCPT, during the organization’s annual meeting in March.

ASCPTThe awards are given annually to the top scoring abstracts submitted by clinical pharmacologists and translational scientists in training. UF College of Pharmacy trainees won 7 of the 21 awards presented this year, which is the most among any college or university nationally. It is the sixth time in the last seven years that the UF College of Pharmacy led the nation in Presidential Trainee Award winners.

Nam Nguyen, Pharm.D., a graduate student in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research, won the 2022 David J. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Presidential Trainee Award — which is given annually to the top-scoring abstract. It’s the fifth time in the last eight years, that a UF College of Pharmacy trainee has won the Goldstein award. Nam’s abstract was titled, “Pharmacogenomic Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Scores as a Tool to Predict Toxicity Phenotypes in Treatment of Acute Childhood Leukemia.” He is mentored by Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., M.Sc., a professor and the Frank A. Duckworth Eminent Scholar Chair.

In addition to Nguyen, the following trainees from the UF College of Pharmacy also won Presidential Trainee Awards:

  • Monica Bennett, a third-year Pharm.D. student from the Jacksonville campus. Her abstract is titled, “Comparative Analysis of the RB Pathway in Leiomyosarcoma. She is mentored by Nathan Seligson, Pharm.D., a clinical assistant professor.
  • Joseph Collins, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research. His abstract is titled, “Identification of a Distal Enhancer and Regulatory Variants Controlling Expression of the CYP3A Genes.” He is mentored by Danxin Wang, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor.
  • Noor A. Nahid, M.S., a graduate student in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research. His abstract is titled, “Pharmacogenomic Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis to Identify Variants Associated with Thiazide and Thiazide-Like Diuretic Induced Glucose Change.” He is mentored by Julie Johnson, Pharm.D., dean and distinguished professor.
  • Trang Nguyen, Pharm.D., a graduate student in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research. Her abstract is titled, “Risk Stratification with Pre-Treatment Metabolite Risk Score for Carfilzomib-Related Cardiotoxicity in Multiple Myeloma Patients.” She is mentored by Yan Gong, Ph.D., an associate professor.
  • Vivek Shastri, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research. His abstract is titled, “A Polygenic DNA Damage Repair Pharmacogenomics (DDR_PGX) Score Predicts Response to Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin in Pediatric AML Patients.” He is mentored by Jatinder Lamba.
  • Cameron Thomas, Pharm.D., a graduate student in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research. His abstract is titled, “Impact of CYP2C19 Genotype on Prediction of Cardiovascular Events with the ABCD-Gene Score Among Patients Receiving CYP2C19-Guided Antiplatelet Therapy After PCI.” He is mentored by Larisa Cavallari, Pharm.D., BCPS, FCCP, a professor and the Debbie DeSantis Term Professor.

For Thomas, this is the third time he has won the award, while the other recipients were first time winners.

Since 2016, the UF College of Pharmacy has won 35 ASCPT Presidential Trainee Awards, the most earned by any college or university.

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Galiano presented ASCPT student/trainee grant

Lismaury Galiano, a third-year Pharm.D. student at the UF College of Pharmacy’s Orlando campus, received a student and trainee grant to participate in the ASCPT Annual Meeting, March 16-18. Her research poster presentation at the meeting was titled, “Focused review of Medication Regimen Complexity and Deprescribing Recommendations in Sleep Apnea Guidelines for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dimentias.”

Lismaury Galiano