Representing Chinese American Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CASNMMI), Dr. Ban-An Khaw, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was recently recognized as the recipient of the 2017 CASNMMI Life Achievement Award, recognizing his outstanding achievements in the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. This award...
Carla Bouwmeester, MS, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, FASCP, Associate Clinical Professor (pictured second from right), recently completed the Emerging Leaders in Aging program, a national inter-professional program focused on augmenting and leveraging existing leadership skills relevant to clinical care, research and education. The program is jointly sponsored by the...
Barbara Waszczak, PhD, is a Professor and a neuroscientist in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences who is pioneering the use of GDNF to repair damaged neurons in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. Her research was featured in the March 2017 newsletter from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, in an...
At the 2016 Northeastern University Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE), Doctor of Pharmacy students Kevin DeLeonardo and Alyssa Long received first place honors for their project which was an assessment of pharmacy student didactic and clinical preparedness surrounding LGBT and mental illness patient populations. ...
In the first known study to examine the completeness of clinical data in a large electronic health record (EHR), researchers from Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found substantial missing data, with profound implications for clinical care,...
Vladimir Torchilin, PhD was awarded a $1.5 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, which will fund a five-year study focused on introducing a novel class of simple-to-prepare therapeutic preparations, that when combined with traditional chemotherapy, could provide a promising strategy against multidrug...
Northeastern University School of Pharmacy faculty member Jane Saczynski, PhD, and co- principal investigator David McManus, MD, of the University Of Massachusetts Medical Center, were recently awarded an R01 grant for their project entitled “Systematic Assessment of Geriatric Elements in Atrial Fibrillation” (SAGE-AF). The four-year,...