EXCELLENCE AMONG GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Award Winning Students
Graduate students in the UF College of Pharmacy are regularly recognized nationally and internationally for their excellence in research.
Students in the News
UF College of Pharmacy trainees take home several awards at Cancer Center Research Day
UF College of Pharmacy trainees won poster awards as well as a predoctoral award at the Jan. 11 event.
Drs. El Saafien and Morris awarded American Heart Association Fellowships
El Saafien received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, while Morris was awarded a one-year predoctoral fellowship.
Marrero, Marchi win abstract awards at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
Dr. Richard Marrero and Francisco Marchi were honored with abstract awards at the ASH Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Dec. 10.
Zachary Greenberg goes back to back with best poster and abstract awards from AAPS
Graduate student Jieqiang Zhou also received a Best Abstract Award at the meeting.
Graduate Student Awards
The UF College of Pharmacy has four awards given to outstanding senior Ph.D. students who have advanced to candidacy. Recipients of the award are nominated by faculty and recommended by their departments. The awardees are chosen by the graduate studies committee:
Robert and Stephany Ruffolo Graduate Education and Research Fellowship
This award recognizes Ph.D. students who have exceptional research accomplishments, including extramural awards, publications and evidence of exemplary leadership, professional activity or service.
Ronald J. and Sally G. Brenner Fellowship
This award recognizes Ph.D. students who have exceptional research accomplishments, including extramural awards, publications and evidence of exemplary leadership, professional activity or service.
Bonnie Avery Advancing Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Endowment Award
This award is given in memory of our colleague and friend Dr. Bonnie Avery for a student who demonstrates leadership and professionalism, and has been engaged in activities that advance women in the pharmaceutical sciences.
The Hartmut Derendorf Award
This award is for entering student to the college who show promise in pharmaceutical research.
The University of Florida College of Pharmacy awarded these graduate students with the college’s top honors in 2022-23.
Medicinal Chemistry
Lobna Elsadek
Robert and Stephany Ruffolo Graduate Education & Research Fellowship
pharmacodynamics
Bo Sortman
Ronald J. and Sally G. Brenner Fellowship
Pharmaceutics
Corey Perkins
Bonnie Avery Advancing Women in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Endowment Award
Pharmaceutics
Bassma Eltanameli
The Hartmut Derendorf Award
Pharmaceutics
Parsshava Mehta
The Hartmut Derendorf Award
Profile
Carrying On the Legacy
Lisa Wilson was the first recipient of the Dr. Bonnie Avery Advancing Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award.
