Dr. David Ferguson comments on New Drug in ND

Professor David Ferguson was quoted in a Grand Forks Herald story, "Grand Forks Police Investigating Drug New to North Dakota," about the illegal use of powdered fentanyl.

Dr. Gunda Georg - AAAS Member-at-Large

Department Head Gunda Georg has been elected a Member-at-Large of the Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her four-year term will begin this February.

Emily Boldy - TOXI Travel Award

Graduate student Emily Boldry, member of the Tretyakova lab, received a  TOXI Travel Award to attend the 2014 American Chemical Society fall meeting in San Francisco.

Nick Struntz - AHA Fellowship Renewal

Graduate student Nick Struntz, member of the Harki lab, was awarded a 1-year competitive renewal of his American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. He will receive an additional $26,000 for his project, "Development of Photochemical DNA Decoys to Study NF-kappaB Expression," which been extended through the end of December, 2015.

Dr. Chengguo Xing - HealthTalk

Professor Chengguo Xing, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, is featured in the HealthTalk story, "The Expert Is In: Liver damage from dietary supplements."

Dr. Dan Harki - Department of Defense Grant

Department of Medicinal Chemistry assistant professor Dan Harki received a $111,842 Department of Defense, Prostate Cancer Research Program grant for his project, "Molecular Profiling of EPI-001: An Inhibitor of Androgen Receptor Signaling with a Disputed Mechanism of Action."

Faculty Receive Collaborative Awards

Three Department of Medicinal Chemistry faculty were recipients of $22,500 awards from the 2014 College of Pharmacy/College of Veterinary Medicine collaborative research program.

• Courtney Aldrich, "Whole Cell Screening Inhibitors Blocking Essential Gcp-YeaZ Interaction"
• Philip Portoghese, "Effect of MCC22, a New Mu Opioid Agonist & Hyperalgesia in Mice"
• Rory Remmel, "Excretion of Antibiotic Metabolite in the Broiler Chick following Hatchery Antibiotic Administration"