The EACPHS Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences announces that a proposal submitted by Guodong LI (principal investigator) from the National University of Singapore and Anjan Kowluru, PhD, (collaborating investigator), VA senior research career scientist and professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been approved and funded by the National Medical Research Council of Singapore. The proposal is entitled “To define the mechanisms whereby knockdown of p21-activated kinase reduces glucotoxicity-induced apoptosis of insulin-secreting cells.”
     Li’s team will carry out the majority of the planned experiments, Edward Manser, PhD, of the Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), will collaborate on antibody and knockdown studies. Kowluru will examine the role of inflammatory cytokines in glucotoxicity. This award will provide support for Kowluru’s recurring travel between Detroit and Singapore.

Student

Claire Lee, a third-year PharmD student, has been appointed to the Policy Standing Committee of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP). She is one of four students in the United States working to promote APhA advocacy efforts. In February, Lee is receiving the Michigan Pharmacists Association first Good Government Award at its annual Convention and Exposition in Detroit.

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The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, a founding college of Wayne State University, is committed to advancing the health and well-being of society through the preparation of highly skilled health care practitioners, and through research to improve health care practices and treatment from the urban to global levels.

Wayne State University is a world class institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.

Media Contact:   Kathleen J. Karas, APR
Voice:     (313) 577-2312
E-mail:   kkaras@wayne.edu

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The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, a founding college of Wayne State University, is committed to advancing the health and well-being of society through the preparation of highly skilled health care practitioners, and through research to improve health care practices and treatment from the urban to global levels.

Wayne State University is a premier urban research university offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.

Media Contact: Kathleen J. Karas, APR
Voice: (313) 577-2312
E-mail: kkaras@wayne.edu