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Shawn Griffin Joins UC Irvine as Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Griffin is a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist and prior to joining UCI, he worked as an oncology pharmacist and clinical pharmacist in hematology, stem cell transplant, and immune cell therapy at the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Frances Leslie Selected as Inclusive Excellence Professor

In this role, Leslie advises on faculty development activities on campus and serves the faculty supported by the grant for Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD). In collaboration with the grant’s PIs, Professors Ilona Yim and Nina Bandelj, she meets with mentees, and serves as part of a mentoring resource network for the faculty who participate in the AFD grant sponsored activities.

Chan, McBane Lead UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Presentations at AACP Conference

When the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) hosted its annual meeting from July 19 through July 22, several UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPPS) faculty presented their recent work.

Cheryl Wisseh Awarded Grant to Study Racial Disparities in Diabetes Drug Regimens and Results

Diabetes is a growing epidemic, especially in the Hispanic community, and while increased prescribing of anti-diabetic medications to delay, manage and reduce the disease is justified, it can also add a further layer of regimen complexity that may have a negative effect on adherence.

Founding Dean Jan Hirsch Discusses How Comprehensive Medication Management Improves Patient Outcomes

Eighty percent of the way we treat and prevent illness is through medications. With that in mind, it is extremely important to get the medications right. Avoidable illness and death resulting from non-optimized medication therapy cost $528.4 billion in 2016, according to a peer-reviewed research paper in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

Brian Paegel and His Research Team Take an Unconventional Approach to Drug Discovery

A passion for science and intellectual humility describes the spirit that Brian Paegel embodies as he pushes through new drug discovery technology development at the UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Melanie Joe Serves as a Bridge Between the Academic and Clinical Sides of UCI Health Affairs

In her unique role, Melanie Joe serves as the Founding Associate Dean for Pharmacy Professional Affairs at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPPS) and Chief Pharmacy Officer for UCI Health.

UCI Professor Mahtab Jafari’s “Life 101: Mental and Physical Self-Care” Course Added to Coursera

“I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with UCI’s Division of Continuing Education to accomplish this goal of adding Life 101 to Coursera,” Jafari said. “I am very excited that this course is now offered to high school and college students on a free platform.”

John Chaput and Kefan Yang Develop a Fast, Easy-to-Use Detection System for COVID-19

The two researchers developed a nucleic acid detection system, named REVEALR, which offers an easy-to-use point-of-care platform that has a one-hour turnaround time and avoids the need for expensive instrumentation.

Early Pharmacological Interventions Prevent Trauma Transmission from Mothers to Children

In a recent study published in Nature Communications Biology, Amal Alachkar worked collaboratively with an interdisciplinary group that included UCI School of Medicine Senior Associate Dean and Professor Geoff Abbott and Distinguished Professor Pierre Baldi in the School of Information and Computer Sciences.

Joyce Yu-Chia Lee Receives American College of Clinical Pharmacy Award

An advanced practice pharmacist, Lee is a founding faculty member of UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and the first to earn the prestigious recognition.

UCI team receives $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA observation

A multidisciplinary team of UCI professors has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new molecular tools to identify ribonucleic acids essential in learning and memory formation.

UCI Study Finds Possible Link Between Protein Expression and Cognitive Impairment After Chemotherapy in Cancer Patients

In a collaboration between UC Irvine and the National University of Singapore, researchers determined that the risk of developing cognitive impairment after chemotherapy may be attributable to differential plasma extracellular vesicles (EV) protein expression in breast cancer patients.

John Chaput Receives the 2021 Athalie Clarke Achievement Award

Professor John Chaput received the Athalie Clarke Achievement Award on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Chaput is the inaugural recipient from the UC Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, which was officially established as a school in July 2020.

During its Five-Month Run, the Bren Events Center Vaccine Clinic Served More than 44,500 People

With well-planned collaboration and tremendous volunteer contributions, the UC Irvine Bren Events Center Vaccine Clinic served more than 44,500 people from January through to its final day on June 12. During the five-month span, the Bren Events Center Vaccine Clinic team administered 76,544 shots and also held two community outreach clinics in Santa Ana and Anaheim.

2021 Graduate David Wych Reflects on the Gratifying Experience of Sharing Knowledge

As part of the class of 2021, Wych earned his PhD in Pharmacological Sciences from UCI this month. His next step will be a full-time role with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he has previously served as a summer fellow, student assistant and summer intern.

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