UA Professor Gets $1 Million Grant October 27, 2009 | AZPM

Story by Robert Rappaport (edited from UA News release)

The head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been awarded a $1 million grant. Marie Chisholm-Burns' award from the the National Institutes of Health will be used to study the effects of pharmacists' involvement in renal transplant patients' drug therapy.

The NIH Research Project Grant will allow Chisholm-Burns and her team to see if pharmacists working more directly with transplant patients will help the patients stay on medication regimens designed to decrease their rejection of transplanted kidneys.

"We will be looking at patients' adherence to medications and their therapeutic response to medications," said Chisholm-Burns, who is principal investigator on the project. "We'll study quality of life and economic outcomes, also."

Read about the grant, as reported by UA News