Dr. Weihsuan “Jenny” Lo-Ciganic Wins UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
The University of Florida has honored Weihsuan “Jenny” Lo-Ciganic, Ph.D., M.S., M.S.Pharm., with the 2020 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors — one of the university’s top awards for a junior faculty member. Lo-Ciganic serves as an assistant professor of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy in the UF College of Pharmacy. As a pharmacoepidemiologist, her research interests involve drug safety, […]
Three Questions About Trends in Antihypertensive Combination Therapy
Specific combinations of 2 drug classes, based upon complementary mechanisms or benefits for a concomitant disease, are recommended for the management of hypertension. However, how often these combinations are utilized and how these trends are affected by the effectiveness of blood pressure control, is less well understood. In a recent study, the researchers used data […]
Dr. Hendrik Luesch Wins Doctoral Dissertation Mentoring Award
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., a professor and chair of medicinal chemistry and the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development, was named the 2019-20 Doctoral Dissertation Mentoring award winner for the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. The award recognizes excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students throughout their dissertation […]
UF Researchers Discover Breakthrough Anticancer Drug
Researchers from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy have discovered a safer and more effective anticancer drug to target leukemia, lymphoma, and breast and lung cancers. The journal Nature Medicine published the findings. Known as DT2216, the drug acts on a protein called B-cell lymphoma-extra large, or BCL-XL, which fuels the growth of malignant […]
UF Researchers Dive Into the Science of How Seaweed Might Prevent Colon Cancer and Inflammation of the Digestive Tract
Consuming a seaweed found near the Florida Keys may offer health benefits in preventing colon cancer and inflammatory diseases of the digest tract, according to researchers Michelle Bousquet, Ph.D., Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., and Fatma Al-Awadhi, Ph.D. in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. A comprehensive multiyear study identified seaweed compounds responsible for anti-inflammatory activities […]
UF Study Finds FDA Strategy Cuts Fetal Exposure to Harmful Immunosuppressive Drug, but Risks Remain
University of Florida researchers determined an FDA-approved program deters pregnant women from starting a potentially harmful immunosuppressive drug. But for women taking the drug, the program was not effective at reducing conception. Mycophenolate helps prevent organ rejection after transplantation and is increasingly used for a variety of autoimmune disorders such as lupus or psoriasis. However, […]
UF Scientists Eye Novel Drug Candidate With Marine Origins to Treat Vision Loss
UF College of Pharmacy researchers teamed with collaborators at SERI and at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, or IMCB, to see whether Apratoxin S4, a novel molecule based on marine cyanobacteria, could be an effective therapy in restricting abnormal blood vessel formation in the eye, which may be a potential treatment […]
NIGMS Awards Dr. Yousong Ding $1.7 Million Grant to Advance Natural Product Research (UF College of Pharmacy)
Yousong Ding, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, received a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to advance his natural product-based drug research. With the funding from the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, Ding aims to access and expand chemical diversity of microbes through the use of new, innovative […]