Mercer University Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program

Mercer Pharmacy Newsletter--Sept. 2021 Alumni Awards and a New Scholarship for Black Students Mercer University College of Pharmacy Alumni Awards Catch up with your classmates and help honor this year's award recipients at Alumni Day at the Tucker Brewing Company on Sat., Oct. 16, from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Register here. The Alumni Associatio...

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Mercer researcher addresses 5 common concerns about COVID-19 vaccine safety Vaccines are one of the safest medicines a person can put into their body and are a key tool in preventing deaths from COVID-19, a Mercer University College of Pharmacy vaccine researcher says.

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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Mani Deepika Vakkalanka, who received a Georgia Bio Innovation Summit top poster award for her presentation entitled "A novel diagnostic method for the detection and quantitation of paralytic shellfish poisoning in humans" today.

CONGRATULATIONS to the recipient of the 2019 – 2020 Hewitt T. Matthews Graduate Student Award, Ms. Aboagyewaah (“AB”) Oppong- Damoah. Ms. Oppong-Damoah’s accomplishments as a 4th-year graduate student are remarkable and include (among many other things), authorship on five peer-reviewed, primary research papers—AB was first author of three of them.

Congratuatlions to Mercer University Alumni Dr. Lipika Chablani, associate professor in the Wegmans School of Pharmacy, received the Trustees’ Award for Distinguished Scholarly Achievement!!

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College of Pharmacy Researcher Dr. Martin D’Souza Investigating Microparticle COVID-19 Vaccine - Mercer News ATLANTA – Mercer University College of Pharmacy faculty member Martin D’Souza, Ph.D., recently began research into designing a microparticle vaccine for COVID-19. Dr. D’Souza has previously used patented nanotechnology to design and deliver nanovaccines for infectious diseases and cancer. His ...

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Mercer researchers developing safer, more effective ways to treat brain disease - Mercer News Mercer University researchers, through their company DD Therapeutics, are working on drug formulations to more safely and effectively treat brain disease.

Congratulations Lesly-Anne Samedy-Bates!! From Lesly-Anne: "This is not only a reflection of my work during my fellowship but also of the strong foundation the Pharmaceutical Sciences dept at Mercer provided me with. Just wanted to say thank you!"

CONGRATULATIONS!! Aboagyewaah Oppong- Damoah (a.k.a. “AB”) 2019 Poster Winner at the Ga Bio Innovation Summit 2019 held at the Cobb Galleria Centre on October 8th
One of four winners for the The Anthony Shuker Scientific Poster Award
Poster #21 – Aboagyewaah Oppong-Damoah – Mercer University
Evaluating the potential of non-psychoactive serotonin 2A receptor agonists for alcohol-use disorder

To Mercer University COP Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Alumni -

We hope to see you all at The Mercer University Alumni Reception at the AAPS meeting this year in San Antonio.

The event details are as follows:

Grand Hyatt San Antonio (Headquarter Hotel).
Date: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Room: Presidio C, Grand Hyatt