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October 22, 2009

Ā鶹¹ū¶³“«Ć½ pharmacy students receive travel awards to national conference

Alaa Abuznait and Hazem Ali, both University of Louisiana at Monroe graduate students in the College of Pharmacy, were awarded ā€œtravelshipsā€ of $500 each to attend the 2009 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting and Exposition from Nov. 8-12 in Los Angeles.

Amgen Inc., a leading human therapeutics and biotechnology company, donated the award to Abuznait. GattefossƩ, a leading provider of specialty health care ingredients and solutions, donated the award to Ali.

Abuznait will present a paper titled ā€œIn Vitro Up-Regulation of P-Glycoprotein Efflux Transporter.ā€ Ali will present his paper titled ā€œFrom Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems (SEDDS) to Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLCs): Impact of Lipid composition on Tocotrienol Partitioning post Lipolysis.ā€

ā€œReceiving such awards demonstrate the quality of our graduate students and the competitive research we have in the College of Pharmacy,ā€ Dr. Amal Kaddoumi, pharmacy professor and Abuznaitā€™s major advisor, said. ā€œIā€™m very proud of our AAPS Student Chapter members.ā€

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