Spring 2007 News for Alumni and Friends of the College of Pharmacy
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Spring 2007 News for Alumni and Friends of the College of Pharmacy Evolution of the Portland Campus See story on page 3. .edu e t egonsta .or y macy mac phar Matt Ito, OSU Pharmacy Practice department head, explains his research at the OHSU Open House. 4 Mark Leid’s mighty mouse 6 Dancing the night away Also inside: 5 Fred Stevens’ hop research 11 Bob Adams scholarship 10 Dean for a day 13 Alumni survey Phar From the Dean Dear Alumni and Friends, teach the professionals of tomorrow. Their research creates new drugs, new dosage forms, You can tell it is spring: besides enjoying the helps us understand drug actions, and enables flowers in bloom and the longer days, the P4s us to bring cutting edge knowledge to the are preparing for graduation, the P3s are classroom. Other faculty are creating new receiving their clerkship assignments, the P2s drug policy or experimenting with innovative are getting ready to move to Portland, and the practice models that will be examples for the P1s are arranging their first internship jobs. future. One emphasis at the Corvallis campus The long process of admissions interviews is the discovery of novel, naturally occurring, and decisions are nearing an end. and semi-synthetic antibacterial molecules. The Portland-based faculty, staff, and students This group is part of an evolving statewide moved into their new offices, classrooms, and signature research center entitled the Oregon research labs in the Oregon Health & Science Translational Research & Drug Discovery A University (OHSU) Center for Health and Institute (OTRADI), in collaboration with Healing in December. It is very exciting to see OHSU, Portland State University, University the increased faculty and student interactions of Oregon, and several Oregon-based biotech- that are occurring, not to mention the great nology companies. Other investigations are view of downtown Portland and Mount St. examining the creation of new vaccines and Helens. The students especially enjoy their unique modes of vaccine delivery. A comple- new lounge and clinical practice/computer lab. mentary component of the translational If you missed the formal open house, feel free infectious diseases research program is per- to visit us any weekday. We have offices on formed by faculty on the Portland campus the twelfth floor, a classroom and conference who collaborate with OHSU’s Molecular rooms on the third floor, and ID and cardio- Medicine Institute to identify mechanisms logy labs on the fourteenth floor. Angie will of antibiotic resistance, test dosing models in give you a ticket for a free ride on the tram humans, and perform pharmacoeconomic/cost that will take you up to the main campus effectiveness analysis of marketed antibiotics. from right outside the door of the building. If you would like me to host an alumni gather- Our scholarship committee is busily reviewing ing in your area, please call Megan Hoffart applications so we can make financial aid (541-737-4014 or [email protected]) awards. Their job is made easier by annual to make arrangements. Alumni gatherings are gifts made by 100 alumni and corporate givers a great opportunity for me to learn more about in addition to several new endowed scholar- your experiences at OSU and to share with ships—ranging from $25,000 to more than you the great things that are happening at $100,000—established in the last two years the college. from alumni and friends of the college. Each Sincerely, of these endowments will fund one or more scholarships of at least $1,000 per year in perpetuity. I also bring your attention to the tribute to Bob Adams in this issue that Wayne A. Kradjan, Pharm.D., BCPS acknowledges a commitment from Samaritan Dean and Professor Health Systems to provide a $5,000 scholarship each year for five years in honor of Bob’s ongoing service to the Samaritan Board and the community of Lebanon. Please support us One important point that I like to emphasize by filling out our to prospective students and alumni is that the Alumni Survey faculty at Oregon State do much more than on page 13. v 2 Spring 2007 pharmacy.oregonstate.edu Message Feature Story New Facility for Portland Campus College hosts open house and ribbon cutting next step in the evolution of the OSU College of Pharmacy in Portland was celebrated on February 11, 2007. Faculty members, students, friends, and Asupporters of the college gathered to dedicate a portion of the brand new Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) riverfront building to educating tomorrow’s pharmacists. The college uses space on the 3rd, 12th, and 14th floors of the building, which is called the Center for Health & Healing. “This is a defining moment in the history of the college,” said Matthew Ito, OSU Pharmacy Practice department head, at the event. “All our classroom space, offices, and laboratories are finally in the same facility. The OSU College of Pharmacy has more than 100 years of Linda Wylie practices bone density health screening experience educating some of the best at the open house. Pharm.D. students the Northwest has to “This is a defining offer. This will help us be more efficient in OHSU. Concurrently, office space was acquired moment in the history continuing that legacy.” at Gaines Hall, formally establishing a satellite of the college.” Collaboration between OHSU and the college campus for the college. began in the early 1970s when OSU’s Drug Today, students in the Pharm.D. program —Matthew Ito Information Center was moved to the OHSU spend their entire third year of study at the campus and directed by a College of Pharmacy Portland campus. Until acquisition of space in On February 9, 2007—two days faculty member. In the late 1980s, a formal the new facility, it was a significant challenge to prior to the open house—the affiliation was negotiated when several joint book rooms at OHSU in which to hold phar- OHSU Foundation announced OSU/OHSU faculty appointments were macy labs and smaller lectures, and educational that it had received an anony- established. In fall 1988, an assistant dean for activities were scattered all over “the hill.” mous pledge for the largest pharmacy practice was appointed and based at single donation in its 120-year The relationship with OHSU provides history.The $40 million gift will opportunities that are not available in many enable a major expansion of the colleges of pharmacy. At the Portland campus, medical school by supporting P3 students learn from pharmacists and construction of a new medical physicians who are currently in practice. school building on the Schnitzer Campus on Portland’s South “Professionals who are actually practicing in Waterfront. the different therapeutic areas are lecturing students, so the information is current and Although plans for the campus up-to-date,” said Ito. “That’s a definite are in the earliest stages of advantage for our students.” discussion, the vision is to create a facility that fosters inter- Student practices blood glucose screening. Continued on page 5 disciplinary and collaborative learning opportunities. pharmacy.oregonstate.edu Spring 2007 3 Research Briefs French Connection Aids Cell Research at OSU t was a post-doctoral The protein, known as CTIP2, regulates does for T cells and what it does for brain experience at the other genes during development of both cells? How does the machine work? These Laboratoire de Génétique the immune and nervous systems. Mice are basic questions.” Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in born without CTIP2 in their brains die One day, medical researchers could use Strasbourg, France, that shaped shortly after birth for reasons the his results to create a treatment for T cell Mark Leid’s approach to science. There, scientists don’t fully understand. leukemia and other diseases or HIV. Leid worked with Pierre Chambon, a I “We have learned a lot about the CTIP2 “It could be big,” he said.u A leader in molecular biology and a Nobel protein by studying its loss during fetal Prize nominee. development,” said Leid. “Now we have In the course of a routine protein created a new mouse line that will permit purification, Leid insisted on testing the us to study the function of CTIP2 in adult purified material for biological activity. animals and in specific organs and tissues.” To his surprise, he found that a second Pharmacy Partners are progressive protein was needed for the first to function. “By the time I left companies keen on maintaining their The resulting article in the journal Cell competitive edge in the marketplace. became the most widely cited paper in Pierre’s lab, I was a Participation in the Partners Program science in 1992. It was the first to report that different person, but helps maximize employee searches two complementary proteins could combine and other business needs by fostering to produce hormone-like receptors in cells, it was an unforgettable visibility and relationships with OSU and it led to a flurry of research worldwide. experience.” pharmacy students. Some activities Leid says he still treasures Chambon’s —Mark Leid supported by our partners are the influence as a mentor and role model. White Box Speaker Series,New Chambon taught him how to run a lab and The mouse also lacks T cells, a major part Student Orientation,White Coat impressed him with the need to work hard of the immune system. As a result, it could Ceremony, and Preceptor Education. and to pursue findings aggressively—even be useful in studying immune-deficiency Heartfelt thanks to our 2007–08 controversial findings. Leid pushed himself diseases such as AIDS. In contrast, humans Pharmacy Partners: harder than he had thought possible.