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The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced it has awarded a $102,300 research grant to the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy to evaluate the quality of data obtained from EHRs using the NCPDP/HL7 Specialty Medication Enrollment Standard. 

Dr. Karunya Kandimalla has been selected as the new associate dean of graduate education for the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

Honor bestowed on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications that are scientifically or socially distinguished.

Congratulations to third-year student Rowan Mahon on her selection as a 2019 President's Student Leadership and Service Award (PSLSA) recipient. The award recognizes her exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota and the surrounding community.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) University of Minnesota chapter recently received recognition by being named chapter of the year at the AMCP Nexus 2018 in Orlando, Florida.

Robert Turesky, PhD, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been appointed as the Masonic Chair in Cancer Causation.

Natalia Tretyakova, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Jon C. Schommer, MS, PhD, RPH, associate department head and professor, Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, will receive the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences.

This is the first diagnostic method developed to detect signs of Alzheimer’s well before plaques form in the brain and patients begin to exhibit outwardly observable symptoms.