Researchers at the University of Florida have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, or NHLBI, to study the effect of using genetic information to guide therapy after an angioplasty heart procedure to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Graduate students Ariana Brice-Tutt and Mohammed Gbadamosi received AFPE Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowships, while Razanne Oueini, a Pharm.D. student, received a Gateway to Research Fellowship award.

Odedina will serve a three-year term on the Minorities in Cancer Research Council of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Bulitta, Langaee and Dietrich are among six UF College of Pharmacy faculty receiving tenure or promotion in 2020.

Children hospitalized with severe asthma may be receiving a preservative which slows their recovery.

The University of Florida College of Pharmacy received a record $28.3 million in research awards in 2019.

The top two scoring abstracts for the 2020 American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics’ Presidential Trainee Awards belong to Marwa Tantawy and Karthik Lingineni.

Lamba is one of 33 faculty members across the university to be named a 2020 UF Research Foundation Professor.

Childs-Kean’s award winning paper was titled, “All aboard!: Involvement of medical and pharmacy trainees in antimicrobial stewardship.” It was published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology in January 2019.

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, or AACP, selected Kathryn J. Smith, Pharm.D., BCACP, as a 2020 Emerging Teacher Scholar Award recipient. Smith will formally receive the award in July at AACP’s annual conference, Virtual Pharmacy Education 2020.