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Wrenn Receives New Investigator Grant from AFPE
Congratulations to Drake University's College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences faculty member Craige Wrenn, Ph.D. for receiving a grant for research on Modeling of Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice by Immunotoxic Lesioning of the Cholinergic Basal Forebrain.
AFPE awards $750,000 to Pharmacy Students and Pharmacy Faculty at 47 Schools in Campaign to Solve Pharmaceutical Scientist Shortage
The Board of Directors and Board of Grants of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education will disburse $750,000 in awards to 15 PharmD degree students, 59 PhD degree students, 1 Clinical Pharmacy Post-PharmD researcher, and 14 pharmacy college faculty researchers to support their pharmaceutical science studies and research during the 2007-2008 academic year (see attached listing of award winners).
The AFPE priority is to help educate more pharmaceutical scientists to solve the acute shortage of pharmacy college faculty teachers and the emerging shortage of pharmaceutical industry scientists trained in drug development & manufacturing technology.
The acute shortage of pharmaceutical scientists for pharmacy college teaching was documented in a 2006 survey by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). 11% or 513 of all full-time pharmacy college faculty positions in 2006 were vacant, an average of 5.6 faculty vacancies per school.
By 2010, with 9 new pharmacy schools expected to open, AFPE projects the pharmacy faculty shortage may increase to 20% or 1,018 unfilled positions for an average of 9.5 vacancies per school. By 2015, with 13 additional new pharmacy schools expected to open and 763 pharmacy faculty scheduled to retire by 2015, AFPE projects the pharmacy college shortage may almost triple to 39% or 2,228 unfilled positions for an average of 18.5 vacant faculty positions per school. “AFPE is concerned that increases in the pharmacy faculty shortage will disrupt the ability of US pharmacy schools to educate the quantities of new pharmacists and scientists needed to deliver pharmaceutical care and develop new medicines,” said AFPE President Robert M. Bachman.
The emerging shortage of pharmaceutical scientists for industry drug development and manufacturing was documented in a 2004 survey by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Pharmaceutical industry executives surveyed by AAPS reported pharmacy college graduate programs need to produce more PhD scientists trained in product development and pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies to meet expanding industry demand for these scientists. These surveyed executives also stated that entry-level PhDs trained in these specialties at pharmacy schools bring a better mix of skills than entry-level PhDs from other science disciplines and that the pharmacy college advantage persists even after 4-6 years of experience on the job.
Annual AFPE Gateway to Research Scholarships, Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Clinical Pharmacy Post-PharmD Fellowships in the Biomedical Research Sciences, and AACP-AFPE Pharmacy Faculty New Investigator Grants keep the US pharmaceutical education pipeline full of talented pharmaceutical science students preparing for careers in industry drug development or academic teaching and help talented young pharmacy faculty teachers initiate their first independent pharmaceutical science research projects. More detail is provided below:
- AFPE Gateway to Research Scholarships involve PharmD degree and baccalaureate degree students in a faculty mentored pharmaceutical science research project designed to introduce them to the challenges and rewards of pharmaceutical science research.
- AFPE First Year Graduate School Scholarships provide recognition and support to outstanding PharmD student members of Kappa Epsilon, Phi Lambda Sigma, or Rho Chi during their first year of graduate school for the PhD degree in the pharmaceutical sciences.
- AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowships provide recognition and support to outstanding pharmaceutical science Ph.D. candidates as they complete the advanced coursework, research, and dissertation phase of their program in preparation for careers in industry research or academic teaching.
- AFPE Clinical Pharmacy Post-PharmD Fellowships in the Biomedical Research Sciences help experienced clinical pharmacists obtain the additional advanced education and basic research training in biomedical and related sciences to become competitive clinical scientists.
- AACP-AFPE Pharmacy Faculty New Investigator Grants encourage and support outstanding young pharmacy faculty as they develop the preliminary data to compete for long-term funding from NIH, other government agencies, and industry of independent research programs.
The annual AFPE Pharmaceutical Science Education Awards program is made possible by the generosity of the following companies, associations, foundations, as well as more than 250 friends, including former AFPE Scholars, AFPE Fellows, and AACP-AFPE Pharmacy Faculty New Investigators: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Pharmacists Association, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, ASHP Foundation, Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bayer HealthCare, Blistex, Inc., Consumer Healthcare Products Association, CVS, Inc., Daichi Sankyo, Healthcare Distribution Management Association, Generic Pharmaceutical Association, GlaxoSmithKline, IMS Health, Johnson & Johnson PR&D, Kappa Epsilon, Merck Company Foundation, NACDS Foundation, National Community Pharmacists Association, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer Inc., Phi Lambda Sigma, PhRMA Foundation, Ortho Biotech, Ortho McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Rho Chi, Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation, sanofi-aventis, Schering-Plough Corporation, USP, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
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