For more than 30 years, AACP has provided seed funding for promising research faculty across the colleges of pharmacy. Although the grant program has gone by many names, what is currently the New Investigator Award (NIA) has maintained a common objective: to assist early-career pharmacy faculty in the development of an independent research program and provide a foundation for future extramural research funding success by enabling these faculty to generate preliminary data.
"[Receiving this award was a] confidence boost," said Dr. Marcia Worley, a past recipient, told AACP's Academic Pharmacy Now magazine. "Peer reviewers in my discipline saw the value and scientific rigor of my research project. This was very important to me as a junior investigator."
Over the program’s tenure, the NIA has funded nearly 500 principal investigators across more than 100 colleges and schools of pharmacy. The breadth of research areas funded by the NIA runs the gamut from basic understanding of disease states and drug discovery to medication adherence to understanding and improving student learning experiences. The results of these projects are discussed in numerous journal articles, poster presentations and platform talks.
AACP is excited to announce the 2022 class of New Investigators.
Padmamalini Baskaran
Howard University
Mitochondrial Quality Control and Fatty Liver Disease
Seenae Eum
Shenandoah University
Genotype-and Phenoconversion-predicted CYP2D6 Activity and Risperidone Exposure
Ashley Campbell
The University of Arizona
Fixed vs. Random Weekly Team Assignments and Student Outcomes in a Therapeutics Course
Jennifer Courtney
California Northstate University
Embedding Pharmacist Professional Identity in the P1 Curriculum
Rachel Crouch
Lipscomb University
In vitro Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Verticilide
Cale Fahrenholtz
High Point University
Development of Silver Nanoparticles for Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
Anisha Gupta
University of Saint Joseph
Next Generation Oncogenic MicroRNAs Inhibitors for Cancer Therapeutics
Ruth Jeminiwa
Thomas Jefferson University
Formative Research to Support the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnant Women
Janet Lighthouse
St. John Fisher College
Effect of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Cardiac Remodeling
Beatriz Manzor-Mitrzyk
University of Michigan
Cross Sectional Study of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at U.S. Schools of Pharmacy
Kathryn Morbitzer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Determining Non-Direct Patient Care Opportunities for Pharm.D. Graduates
Marwa Noureldin
Manchester University
Pharmacists' Roles as Information Providers to Family Caregivers of Older Adults
Teresa Salgado
Virginia Commonwealth University
Oncologists' Knowledge, Comfort and Ownership of Hyperglycemia Management
Ernane Souza
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Novel Allosteric Thrombin Inhibitors as a New Class of Anticoagulants
Kangho Suh
University of Pittsburgh
The Impact of Pharmacists Using Electronic Alerts on Patient Outcomes in D-AKI
Michael Wolcott
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deliberate Practice Preceptor OSTEs to Build Racially Inclusive Learning Environments
Congratulations to this year's recipients.
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