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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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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Our Youngken Medicinal Garden won its first award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)! The award was presented by the VT chapter (Vermont Architects) and now the nomination moves on to the national level. Peter Morgan was also cited for superb maintenance of the garden!
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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 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. 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 […]
Continue reading "Dr. Jayne Pawasauskas honored with the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions 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 — 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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APhA-ASP Chapter Professionalism Award On March 4, 2013 at the Annual APhA Meeting in Los Angeles, CA Casey Brown (URI Chapter President) received the Chapter Professionalism award on behalf of the URI College of Pharmacy APhA-ASP from the national president of the organization. Following the ceremony Dr. Campbell along with members from our chapter displayed […]
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During the University of Rhode Island’s spring break, pharmacy student Emily Anastasia went to a completely different world, but she traveled just a little more than a mile from campus to get there. As part of her last clinical pharmacy rotation in her sixth and final year of the doctor of pharmacy program at URI, […]
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