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UH Gets $240K
Grant for New Drug Screening System
The
UH College of Pharmacy's Center
for Experimental Therapeutics
& Pharmacoinformatics will
house a new automated high-throughput
drug screening system, thanks
to a $240,000 grant from the
John S. Dunn Foundation to the
Gulf Coast Consortium for Chemical
Genomics. The new system will
increase the speed and effectiveness
of UH's drug screening and drug
design potential by up to 1,000
times its current capabilities.
With similar systems set up
at its Gulf Coast Consortia
partner institutions, UH will
benefit from expanded opportunities
for collaboration and data sharing.
College,
St. Luke's Partner on Fellowship
Program UH
College of Pharmacy and St.
Luke's Episcopal Hospital are
partnering on an Infectious
Diseases Fellowship program.
The two-year program will combine
infectious disease clinical
practice within the St. Luke's
Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship
during the first year, followed
by an intensive research focus
in collaboration with UHCOP's
infectious diseases experts
in the second year. The program,
jointly funded by UHCOP and
St. Luke's, will incorporate
a range of experiential rotations
and healthcare informatics training.
Candidates are currently being
interviewed, with a start date
slated for July.
Yeh's Project
Aims to Develop Patient Profiles for
Promising Single-Agent HIV
Therapy  UHCOP
Associate Professor Rosa
F. Yeh, Pharm.D., BCPS,
has received a $67,000 grant
from Abbott Laboratories to
conduct a retrospective evaluation
of lopinavir/ritonavir single-agent
therapy in a real clinic setting.
Previous studies of single-agent
therapy have demonstrated the
coformulation of lopinavir/ritonavir's
benefit in HIV suppression for
at least two years. Yeh's project
will attempt to determine which
patients are good candidates
for treatment or less likely
to develop complications related
to the single-agent therapy.
UHCOP Associate Professor Sujit
Sansgiry, Ph.D., and
Joseph Gathe Jr., M.D., FACP,
of Therapeutic Concepts, P.A.,
are serving as co-investigators
on the project.
TPA Winner Takes
UH Crown, Sets Sights on
Nationals
 Pharm.D.
student Kandi Icenhower,
first-place winner of the Texas
Pharmacy Association's Patient
Counseling Competition in 2007,
won the UH ASP Chapter's Patient
Counseling competition in January.
Icenhower will represent UH
at the APhA National Patient
Counseling Competition in March
in San Diego, Calif. A record
number of pharmacy students
- 128 - entered the '07 UH competition.
Pharmacy
Fraternity's UH Chapter Wins
2 Awards
The UH chapter of Kappa Psi
co-ed pharmacy fraternity recently
picked up two regional awards
at the organization's Province
VII meeting in February in Dallas.
The UH chapter -- formally known
as Delta Delta Chapter -- picked
up the Chapter of the Year and
the Best Chapter Report awards.
In addition, UH pharmacy students
and Delta Delta members Thomas
Key and Kyana
Stewart were elected
Province VII Chaplain and Secretary,
respectively. Kappa Psi's Province
VII comprises 19 student and
graduate chapters in seven states.
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