Bhushan Kharbikar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Professors Qizhi Tang, PhD, and Tejal Desai, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious JDRF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship. JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.
As an executive assistant in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, I support faculty member Rada Savic, PhD, and the Savic Integrative Pharmacology Research Laboratory. I manage schedules, prepare meeting materials, and coordinate executive meetings, communications, and events at our Mission Bay campus as well as offsite.
As an education coordinator in the Integrated Core Team, I provide pharmacy faculty with a variety of resources to improve teaching and learning. I also assist with course administration, program management, and data evaluation and assessment.
The Preclinical Design and Clinical Translation of TB Regimens (PReDicTR) Consortium has been awarded a $30.8M grant over five years to research the most effective treatment options for future clinical testing.