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2019 UNC Celebration of Inventorship

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Please mark your calendar to join us on Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 p.m. for the 2019 Celebration of Inventorship. This event is hosted by the UNC Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and will be held at Top of the Hill (Great Room). Registration will open soon, so please reserve this date on your calendar now. 

During this celebration, OTC presents the Inventor of the Year Award to a UNC-Chapel Hill innovator in recognition of their contributions to inventions and patents. The award honors the recipient's commitment to the University’s culture of encouraging innovation, disseminating knowledge and promoting entrepreneurship.

You'll have the opportunity to:

  • Hear from University leaders about Carolina’s focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • Be inspired by a presentation from the UNC Inventor of the Year.
  • Hear an announcement that recognizes all inventors who received issued patents in the last year.



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About Kim L.R. Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D.

Kim L.R. Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, associate dean for research and graduate education, and a professor in the curriculum in toxicology.
 

Brouwer received her B.S. in pharmacy from Oregon State University. She completed her Pharm.D. at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in conjunction with a pharmacy residency at the UK Medical Center and a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences/pharmacokinetics. After postdoctoral training (pharmacology/drug metabolism) in the UK College of Medicine, she joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina in 1986 where she served as director of graduate studies for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy from 1996 to 2004.

Brouwer directs an NIH-funded research program focused on hepatobiliary drug disposition and development and refinement of in vitro model systems to predict in vivo hepatobiliary disposition, drug interactions, and hepatotoxicity. She has mentored more than 85 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students and published more than 295 research papers, abstracts and book chapters.

Brouwer is a co-inventor of B-CLEAR® (U.S. Patent No. 6,780,580), an in vitro method to assess hepatic uptake, excretion, and biliary clearance that correlates with in vivo data. This technology has been exclusively licensed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to Qualyst, Inc. Brouwer is a Qualyst founder and chairs the company’s scientific advisory board.

She served as a member of the NIH Pharmacology Study Section from 1998 to 2002 and is a member of the editorial boards for Drug Metabolism and Disposition, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the AAPS Journal. She was elected an AAPS Fellow in 1998, was recipient of the PHRMA Foundation Award in Excellence in Pharmaceutics in 2001 and received the inaugural Pharmaceutical Sciences Outstanding Graduate Program Alumni Award and the Paul F. Parker Award from the University of Kentucky.


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