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.
“Early career support for researchers in all disciplines is critical for demonstration of new ideas," Dr. Matthew Metcalf, a past recipient, told AACP's Academic Pharmacy Now magazine.
"The NIA allows new faculty the ability to show that when they get funding they can produce significant contributions to the global body of scientific and practice achievement.”
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 2023 class of New Investigators.
Vibhuti Agrahari
The University of Oklahoma
Topical Hybrid Nanomicelles for Treating Corneal Injuries and Repair
Simone Brixius-Anderko
University of Pittsburgh
Targeting Cytochrome P450 Mediated Fatty Acid Metabolism in Lung Cancer
Xin Chen
Campbell University
Development of Chemical Affinity Probe for Quantitative Proteomic Profiling of PI3Ks
Collin Clark
University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
A Pilot Pharmacist-to-Pharmacist Hand-off Intervention During Transitions of Care
Caleb Class
Butler University
Prediction of Antidepressant Response Through Pharmacotranscriptomics
Ashley Crumby
The University of Mississippi
Factors Associated with Student Pharmacist Engagement in Mentoring Relationships
Kelsey Frederick
The University of Tennessee
Growth Mindset and Clinical Reasoning in Student Pharmacist Experiential Education
Elizabeth Henderson
Presbyterian College
Lead Optimization of Tetrahydropyridines as Potential Breast Cancer Agents
Jinhee Jo
University of Houston
Non-toxigenic Clostridioides difficile: Implications for Diagnostic Stewardship
Yujin Kim
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Developing Hydrogel-forming Microneedles to Deliver an Anti-Parkinson Drug into Skin
Kathryn Marwitz
Manchester University
Evaluating the Impact of Information Literacy Education on Misinformation Debunking
Srinath Pashikanti
Idaho State University
Mitochondrial Membrane Disruption Using Novel Sphingoid Probes in Cancer Cells
Kathryn Sawyer
University of Illinois at Chicago
Utilizing Transformative Learning Theory to Enhance Professional Identity Formation
Chengwen Teng
University of South Carolina
Safety Assessment of Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
Yun (Sherry) Wang
Chapman University
A Real-World Study Assessing Utilization of Buprenorphine Treatments
Congratulations to this year's recipients.