For nine future scientists, the culmination of three months of training and research in biomedical sciences was on display at the Research Training Opportunities for Outstanding Leaders, or ReTOOL, Research Showcase on July 31. The day-long event featured nine minority undergraduate students from three Florida universities presenting their…
Yousong Ding, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, has received a Department of Defense Discovery Award to study a hormone that has shown promise in fighting obesity. The $151,000 grant will support a new study that aims to engineer the hormone to better capture its anti-obesity benefits. Experiments…
The Alpha Omega chapter at the College of Pharmacy’s St. Petersburg campus received an honorable mention award for its Pharm-CORP National Project at the Kappa Epsilon National Convention. Pharm-CORP, or Pharmacy Career Opportunity Recruitment Project, was designed to educate high school students about pharmacy school and the pharmacy profession.
A mutual research interest brings together College of Pharmacy alumna and supporter Debbie DeSantis and Dr. Hendrik Luesch in search of cyanobacteria in the Florida Keys
Mark Hobbs was honored with the 2015 University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s Outstanding Alumnus Award
W. Thomas Smith, Pharm.D., J.D This course was designed to prepare students and practicing pharmacists to be successful on the Florida version of the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE®). The course provides an overview of Federal and Florida laws involving the practice of pharmacy and the use of medications.
Oxytocin is best known as the “love hormone” that is released during a hug or a kiss. Now, two University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers have been awarded a pair of grants totaling $3.75 million to study its role in regulating the body’s response to stress and…
Charles Jason Frazier, Ph.D. Charles Jason Frazier, Ph.D., an associate professor and graduate coordinator of pharmacodynamics, has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $1.875 million from the National Institute of Mental Health. The goal of this project is to reveal how the…
Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, Pharm.D., M.S., has received the American College of Cardiology’s 2015 Distinguished Associate Award — the first time this award has been given to a pharmacist. Cooper-DeHoff is an associate professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research in the University of Florida College of…
Julie Johnson, Pharm.D., dean of the University of Florida’s College of Pharmacy, has won the 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Southeastern Universities Research Association.
