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Dr. Tracey Taveira Appointed to the Professional Practice Committee for the American Diabetes Association

Tracey Taveira

Tracey Taveira was selected to serve as a member of the Professional Practice Committee for the American Diabetes Association. ADA is confident that Dr. Taveira’s expertise and experiences will be invaluable to the work of this important committee in advancing the mission of the American Diabetes Association. As a Professional Practice Committee member, Dr. Taveira […]

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Discover New Cures.

Discover New Cures. The world’s got a lot of illness and disease that needs curing, and at URI, leading scientists are breaking new ground toward the discoveries we’ve all been waiting for. Inside our Natural Products Lab, Pharmacognosy Professor David Rowley – one of the only a handful of marine microbial chemists in the world […]

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Big Thinkers: David Rowley

Title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences Expertise: Microorganisms from unexplored environments; secondary metabolites produced by marine microbes; bacterial chemical communication; and antibiotic drug discovery One of the more frightening medical trends today is our growing resistance to antibiotics, which we take for everything from ear infections to life-threatening blood conditions. As people use antibiotics for more […]

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Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Outcomes Fellowship Program in Antimicrobial Stewardship

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Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Outcomes Fellowship Program in Antimicrobial Stewardship Rhode Island Infectious Diseases (RIID) Research Program   Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Providence, RI Funded Fellowship in conjunction with: The University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Pharmacy, Kingstown, RI Warren Albert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI   Office Address Veterans Affairs Medical Center […]

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Post-Doctoral In Vitro Pharmacodynamics Fellowship in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy

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Post-Doctoral In Vitro Pharmacodynamics Fellowship in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Rhode Island Infectious Diseases (RIID) Research Program   Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Providence, RI The University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Pharmacy, Kingstown, RI Warren Albert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI   Office Address Veterans Affairs Medical Center (151) Research Building #7 830 […]

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Dr. Jayne Pawasauskas honored with the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award

Jayne Pawasauskas

Dr. Pawasauskas was presented with the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award at the New England Pharmacists Convention at Foxwoods MGM Grand on September 19, 2013.  This award recognizes a pharmacist who has demonstrated excellence in community-based prescription drug abuse prevention. The award is intended to recognize outstanding efforts within the pharmacy community to raise awareness of this serious public health […]

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Dr. Anita Jackson Received the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Association (NASPA) Excellence in Innovation Award

Dr. Jackson was presented with the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Association (NASPA) Excellence in Innovation Award at the New England Pharmacists Convention at Foxwoods MGM Grand on September 19, 2013.  This award recognizes and honors a qualified pharmacist who has demonstrated significant innovation in his or her respective practice, method, or service directly or indirectly resulting in […]

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Providence Journal- R.I. businesses can tap into URI’s Business Engagement Center for help

PROVIDENCE — When The Pizza Gourmet, a Warwick-based maker of wood-grilled pizza crusts, started planning how to keep up with growing sales, co-owner Jack Parente called the University of Rhode Island for some help.Parente, a URI graduate, wanted to know if anyone at the university could design a more efficient grill to cook the crusts […]

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