It’s Monday morning, Sept. 18, at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The dean’s parking spot is empty. So is the dean’s office. It’s Dhiren Thakker’s first day as the interim dean of the School, and he is still in his office on the third floor of Kerr Hall. His car is sitting in its usual place … Read more
Vaccination efforts made in the world’s poorest countries since 2001 will have prevented 20 million deaths and saved $350 billion in health-care costs by 2020, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In … Read more
Nithya Srinivas, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of the IAS/ANRS Lange-van Tongeren Prize for Young Investigators in the clinical sciences track from the International AIDS Society … Read more
Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy hosted four students from University College London School of Pharmacy as part of the international PharmAlliance partnership. Final-year pharmacy students at UCL conduct three months of research. PharmAlliance … Read more
Elizabeth Wayne, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying how immune cells can be used to fight cancer, gave a TED talk on the main stage at TED 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. Wayne was … Read more
Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, conferred an honorary doctorate upon Robert A. “Bob” Blouin, dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 25. Blouin is also the Vaughn and Nancy … Read more
The China Scholarship Council (CSC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy to provide financial assistance for Chinese students studying pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences at the University … Read more
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Moscow State University have created a new way to package and deliver a potent enzyme that can reverse — and even prevent — poisoning by pesticides and nerve gas, including … Read more
