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Today@Wayne: Heather Fritz researching new program to prevent frailty in older African AmericansAssistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Heather Fritz won a $256,000 grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to test an occupational therapy-based intervention on 150 pre-frail African Americans. Her team is halfway through their two-year timeframe and seeing positive results in the 75 people enrolled so far.
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WSU Applebaum professor Paul Kilgore part of NSF award for multidisciplinary research of public health and water systemsWayne State University was awarded a four-year, $1.57 million grant from the National Science Foundation to advance understanding of how public health and water drinking systems assess risks to safe water quality and the impact on public health when access to clean drinking water is interrupted. The team includes Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of Research Paul Kilgore.
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Pharmaceutical sciences faculty awarded funding for postdoctoral fellowArun Iyer, a DoD-funded early career investigator and assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was awarded $120,000 in total funding from OVPR and EACPHS administered over two years to bring on a postdoctoral fellow through a competitive selection process for Wayne State faculty members.
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Zhengping Yi, Wassim Tarraf win WSU Applebaum faculty awardsAt the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 16th annual Research Day on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhengping Yi was awarded the Faculty Research Recognition Award, and Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Wassim Tarraf ’02, ’10 was awarded the Junior Faculty Research Recognition Award. These annual honors were announced in addition to student poster winners following a keynote lecture by Timothy Billiar, MD.
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WSU Applebaum Research Day award winners announcedOn Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences hosted its 16th annual Research Day. Trauma immunologist Timothy R. Billiar, MD, delivered the keynote lecture and participated in student poster evaluation for awards.
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Download the 2019 Research Day Abstract BookTimothy R. Billiar, MD, will keynote the 16th annual Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Research Day on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, at 11 a.m.
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OT professor seeks grad students for animal-assisted therapy studyAssistant Professor (Clinical) of Occupational Therapy Christine Johnson is seeking full-time graduate and professional students to participate in her latest study, "The Effect of Animal-Assisted Intervention (AAI) on Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Well-being: Insights from Occupational Therapy."
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PharmD students, alumni representing WSU Applebaum at IDWeek 2019IDWeek 2019 is Oct. 1-6 in Washington DC, and a handful of WSU Applebaum students, alumni and faculty are there presenting their research.
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RSVP by Oct. 8 for Research Day with keynote by Timothy Billiar, MDTimothy R. Billiar, MD, will keynote the 16th annual Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Research Day on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, at 11 a.m.
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Malcolm Cutchin part of team receiving $3.1 million NIH grant to improve quality of life for African American cancer survivorsA team of researchers from Wayne State University and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute are investigating the combined role that community, interpersonal and individual influences have on negatively affecting the health-related quality of life for African American cancer survivors, and how those influences create racial health disparities between African Americans and non-Hispanic white survivors. The team includes Malcolm P. Cutchin, Ph.D., professor in the Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Health Care Sciences in Wayne State’s Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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Professor Linda Jaber advances international initiatives in pharmacyA native of Lebanon, Professor of Pharmacy Practice Linda Jaber returned to her home country this summer as a participant and presenter at the National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) Summer International Conference, held June 30-July 5, 2019, at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The conference marked her first presentation at the AUB campus.
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PBS Frontline: Paul Kilgore part of investigative documentary on Flint Water CrisisAssociate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Paul Kilgore is featured in the Sept. 10, 2019, PBS FRONTLINE documentary that, drawing from a two-year investigation, uncovers the extent of a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis.
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Research Day abstract and poster development workshop is Sept. 12Associate Professor & Director of Research Paul Kilgore is hosting a workshop for all WSU Applebaum faculty and students in all departments to help WSU Applebaum students and faculty develop their abstract and/or poster for EACPHS Research Day.
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IRB eProtocol training session to be held at WSU Applebaum Oct. 2Wayne State's IRB Administration Office is in the process of completing the next phase of electronic protocol (eProtocol) submission implementation. A training session for WSU Applebaum researchers will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in room 1341 of the college's building at 259 Mack Ave. Coffee and hot chocolate will be provided for attendees.
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Post-doc Razie Kebriaei earns ACCP Foundation Futures GrantPost-doctoral fellow Razie Kebriaei received an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Foundation (ACCP) Foundation Futures Grant of $30,000 to pursue her project, “A Novel Approach for Combating Medical Device Associated Biofilm Infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).”
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Professor Michael Rybak wins Distinguished Investigator AwardThe American College of Clinical Pharmacy's Infectious Diseases Practice Network (ID-PRN) has honored Wayne State University Professor of Pharmacy Practice Michael Rybak with its 2019 Distinguished Investigator Award.
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Heather Fritz works to prevent frailty in African AmericansBefore a person becomes frail, they are pre-frail, showing changes in physical and mental health, socialization, and quality of life that make them likely to become frail, often within three to seven years. “If we can intervene at this point,” said Heather Fritz, PhD, an assistant professor of occupational therapy (OT) and gerontology at the IOG, “we could possibly delay the descent into frailty.”
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WSU Applebaum professors Malek, Burghardt shed new light on epigenetic response of exercise in athletic v. sedentary menA new interdisciplinary research team including WSU Applebaum professors Kyle Burghardt (Pharmacy Practice) and Moh H. Malek (Physical Therapy) along with colleagues in the Department of Kinesiology at the California State University Fullerton recently discovered that an individual’s training experience has a direct impact on one such epigenetic change stemming from resistance exercise – DNA methylation, a process that influences gene expression and regulates skeletal muscle adaptation.
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals announces plan to develop Wayne State technology for PTSD and other disordersTonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today an exclusive agreement to in-license a triple reuptake inhibitor (TRI), TNX-1600 (formerly D-578), to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and potentially other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The compound was developed and pharmacologically characterized by Aloke Dutta, Ph.D., professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wayne State University, with funding from a National Institutes of Health grant (grant number MH084888), and the patents covering the compounds were licensed to TRImaran Pharma, Inc. (TRImaran). The transaction announced today is a license agreement with Wayne State and an asset acquisition with TRImaran.
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Contagion: Prof. Rybak discusses research on combination therapy for MRSA bloodstream infectionsThe question of combination therapy versus monotherapy for MRSA bloodstream infections is one that is widely debated. In this new analysis, a team of investigators from Wayne State University and the University of California at San Francisco conducted research at 2 academic medical centers between 2008 and 2018.
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2019 Benchmark Report: URC remains tops in the U.S. in medicine, bio science talentThe three universities that make up Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) – Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University – continue to lead the nation’s university innovation clusters in the number of medicine and biological science degrees awarded annually.
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Abstract submission now open for Oct. 16 Research Day with keynote by Timothy Billiar, MDThe deadline to submit abstracts for WSU Applebaum's 16th annual Research Day is Sept. 20.
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Nominations open for EACPHS Faculty Research Recognition AwardsThe deadline to nominate faculty and junior faculty for the awards is Tuesday, Oct. 1. Winners will be announced at Research Day on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
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ReBUILDetroit program receives renewal of more than $19 million from National Institutes of HealthReBUILDetroit is a partnership between University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University, supported by an initial $21.2 million grant awarded in 2014. In this next phase, Henry Ford College has joined the partnership to create pathways for students to transfer from community college to complete four-year college degrees in STEM at Detroit Mercy or WSU and eventually join graduate programs in biomedical-related fields. The first phase of the grant significantly impacted student retention rates, with most BUILD scholars graduating in four years with a STEM major.
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Call for papers at intersection of health, well-being and citizenship for Wayne State conferenceThe 17th annual Conference in Citizenship Studies is seeking papers at the intersection of health, well-being and citizenship. The conference is led by Wayne State's Center for the Study of Citizenship Studies within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
