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Pharm.D. Students Receive AFPE Gateway to Research Award
Katie McCrink (’18), and Dana Holger (’19) were selected from a pool of applicants to receive the 2017 American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Gateway to Research Award. This scholarship provides a unique opportunity to participate in faculty-mentored research and encourages students with the aptitude and desire to pursue a career in research and continue their education in a Ph.D. program. The stipend award will be used for research related expenses in support of the student’s research interests.
McCrink is conducting cardiovascular research under the guidance of faculty mentor Anastasios Lymperopoulos, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, on the study of certain neurohormonal receptors that control cardiac function, in an effort to discover new and better drugs for heart failure. Specifically, her scholarship-awarded project focuses on developing a novel drug to combat high levels of aldosterone, a toxic hormone in heart failure, by suppressing its production from the adrenal glands.
Holger conducts research alongside Malav Trivedi, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences exploring how the environment, nutrition/diet and exercise regulate genes in the body, and how epigenetic changes turn genes off and on – a modification of the DNA called methylation in neurological diseases like Autism, Alzheimer’s and drug addiction.