Honors & Awards

  • TCO Star (2nd recipient overall). Technology & Commercialization Office, 06/01/2011
  • Technical Poster Presentation Award. 15th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems, 02/15/2011
  • Nominated for P1 "Teacher of the Year". College of Pharmacy, 09/01/2010

Affiliations

  • Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), Member - Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics, 08/2010 - present
  • NanoOncology (NanoOncology), Scientific Advisor, 06/01/2010 - present
  • The Brain Institute of Utah (Brain Institute), Member, 01/2010 - present
  • Nano Institute of Utah (Nano Institute), Member, 03/2009 - present
  • Pediatric Environmental Health Group (PEH Group), Member, 03/2009 - present

In the Media

  • “Silver nanoparticles mutating zebrafish: An extension to pediatric health?” Nov 25th (2009) by Deborah Rafferty, published by The Daily Utah Chronicle online http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/silver-particles-might-poison-water-clothes-1.2107955. 11/25/2009.
  • “Fish kill: Nanosilver mutates fish embryos” Nov 17th (2009) published by Scientific American online http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nanotechnology-silver-nanoparticles-fish-malformation. 11/17/2009.
  • “Nanosilver in consumer products: No silver lining for fish” Nov 17th (2009) by Gordon Shetler, published by Environmental Health News online http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/nanosilver. 11/17/2009.
  • “siRNA delivery and the NIH SBIR program” Nov 11th (2009) by Lisa Dufresne, Foresight Science & Technology, Inc, Support Contractors to the NIH SBIR. 11/11/2009.
  • R21 siRNA delivery award profiled in “NIH awards nearly $6M in RNAi, miRNA grants with stimulus money” Sept 3rd (2009) by Doug Macron; published by GenomeWeb online http://www.genomeweb.com/rnai/nih-awards-nearly-6m-rnai-mirna-grants-stimulus-money. 09/03/2009.

Professional Service

  • Controlled Release Society. CRS Meeting Abstract Reviewer. 05/01/2011 - 06/01/2011

Internal Service

  • Faculty Search Committee. 09/2010 - 06/2011. Department service.
  • Pediatric Environmental Health Group. Faculty Member, 03/01/2009 - present. University service.
  • Coursemaster - PHCEU 7020: Advanced Physical Pharmacy and Drug Formulations. 2009 - present. Department service.
  • Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Graduate Admissions Committee. Committee Member, 2009 - present. Department service.
  • Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Website Redesign Committee. Committee Chair, 2009 - 2010. Department service.

Outreach

  • Pre-college Student Training and Recruiting: Sterling Rosqvist (Davis High School; Bountiful, Utah). 2009 - 2009
  • Pre-college Student Training and Recruiting: Greg Norton (Sun Prairie High School; Sun Prairie, WI). 2009 - 2009