AFPE is excited to announce the recipients of our Pre-Doctoral Fellowships and Gateway Award for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Pre-Doctoral Fellowships support Ph.D. candidates, and allows them to focus their time fully on their research project.
We also offer the following specific Pre-Doctoral Fellowships: the Dr. Paul B. Myrdal Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Dr. Paul B. Myrdal Memorial Gateway Award, the Herb and Nina Demuth Memorial Award in Pharmaceutics, the Underrepresented Minority Award, and the Health Outcome Disparities Award.
The Gateway Award supports Pharm.D. and undergraduate students who are considering a career in research, and enables them to work with a faculty mentor on that mentor’s research project. Both Pre-Doctoral fellows and Gateway awardees are carefully chosen by our highly selective Board of Grants and contribute to research that will positively impact public health and patient outcomes.
This year, many of our fellows and awardees are conducting research in oncology, neurodegenerative disease cures, addiction and pain management, and healthcare disparities. For more detailed information on the awards and fellowships AFPE offers, please click here.
At Auburn University, two students, Logan Neel and Warren Smith, received the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences and one student, Emily Peel, received the AACP-AFPE Gateway Award.
At Butler University, Erin Dark received the Gateway Award. Katherine Vollmer, a student at Drake University, received the Gateway Award.
East Tennessee State University student Sarah Gentry received the AACP-AFPE Gateway Award. High Point University student Rebekah Placide also received Gateway awards.
At The Ohio State University, Sophia Liva was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.Oregon Health and Science University student Chitra Kachanger received the Gateway Award. Briana Cote, a student at Oregon State University was awarded the Dr. Paul B. Myrdal Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
Brentsen Wolf, at Southern Illinois University, Mary Thannisch, at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received the AACP-AFPE Gateway Award. Thi Nguyen, at University of California, San Francisco received a Gateway award.
University of Florida student Brett Fleisher earned a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences. At the University of Kentucky, Noor Naffakh received a Gateway Award, and Taylor Lundy was awarded the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Science.
At the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Jordan Pritts and Stephanie Shiffka both received Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Pharmaceutical Sciences. University of Minnesota student Andrew Zhou was awarded the Dr. Paul B. Myrdal Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student Christopher Wang received the Dr. Paul B. Myrdal Memorial Gateway Award. At the University of Pittsburgh, Joshua Cinicola received a Gateway Award, Karryn Crisamore received the Herb and Nina Demuth Memorial Award in Pharmaceutics, and Brian Kiesel was awarded the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Rachel Carley, at the University of Rhode Island, received the Gateway Award.
At the University of Southern California, Rebecca Lim and A Young Park both received Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Joshua Silva was awarded both the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Underrepresented Minority Award. Rebecca Wahrmund, a student at the University of Tennessee received a Gateway Award.
Kyler Tormey, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, received the AACP-AFPE Gateway Award. At the University of Utah. Both Julian Tu and Erica Vander Mause were awarded Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Muhammad Khalifa, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
At Virginia Commonwealth University, Austin Jones was awarded the Herb and Nina Demuth Memorial Award in Pharmaceutics, and Elena Fernandez was awarded the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Outcome Disparities.
