{"id":67524,"date":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pharmacy-research-outreach-programs-could-grow-at-uri-if-voters-approve-question-4\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"pharmacy-research-outreach-programs-could-grow-at-uri-if-voters-approve-question-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/10\/pharmacy-research-outreach-programs-could-grow-at-uri-if-voters-approve-question-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy research, outreach programs could grow at 溏心vlog免费B站 if voters approve Question 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 26, 2006 \u2013Some of its faculty are making critical discoveries about drug interactions while others are helping another state agency save millions in pharmacy costs. The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy is benefiting our state, country and indeed the world.<\/p>\n


\nBut the College no longer has the space or technology it needs to grow in its crowded, outdated home\u2014Fogarty Hall.

\nThat\u2019s why on Nov. 7 alumni and friends of 溏心vlog免费B站 are being asked to vote yes on Question 4, which would provide $65 million for a new home for the College and $7.8 million for Rhode Island College.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn one corner of Fogarty Hall, Professor Bingfang Yan conducts gene-based research on why some medicines work in one person and not in another. His worked is backed by $3.7 million in federal funding to examine critical drug interactions, how drugs are metabolized and the effectiveness of herbal remedies.<\/p>\n


\n\tDespite being recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a leading biomedical researcher, he operates in severely outdated and cramped lab and office space.<\/p>\n


\nYan has attracted the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the NIH with his research showing that Tamiflu can be rendered ineffective in patients also taking the anti-clotting drug Plavix. That\u2019s an important finding because international and federal health officials are counting on the anti-viral Tamiflu to be a critical weapon in the fight against an influenza pandemic. More than 2 million prescriptions were written for Tamiflu in 2005, while more than 20 million Plavix prescriptions were written the same year, according to industry data.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe College\u2019s Health Care Utilization Management Center, which operates out of the Fogarty Hall basement, has helped save the Department of Corrections nearly $5 million since 2002.<\/p>\n


\nE. Paul Larrat, associate dean of pharmacy, and Rita Marcoux, assistant professor of pharmacy who runs the management center, oversee the program with the corrections department. But because there isn\u2019t enough room in Fogarty, they are located in satellite offices in a building across the street.\t<\/p>\n


\nThey work with corrections officials, doctors and nurses to manage the medications for the prison system whose daily population averages 3,700 while its intake center processes 17,000 individuals per year. The department\u2019s projected medication budget from 2003 through 2006 totaled $13.7 million, but its actual costs, thanks to efforts of the corrections medical team led by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s management, were $8.8 million for the same period.<\/p>\n


\n\tOne of the major arguments for a new building is that it would be able to house students, faculty and staff, as well as all pharmacy programs at a single site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 26, 2006 \u2013Some of its faculty are making critical discoveries about drug interactions while others are helping another state agency save millions in pharmacy costs. The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy is benefiting our state, country and indeed the world. But the College no longer has the space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}