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For Jessica Lehmann, a fourth-year pharmacy student and member of the University of Rhode Island track and field team, her fight against killers like cancer is personal. That’s because her mother is a breast cancer survivor.

The Park Ridge, N.J. resident took that personal interest and worked last summer as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow with URI Pharmacy Professor Keykavous Parang, focusing on breast and colon cancer research. She paid particular attention to a certain protein that gets over-expressed and causes these types of cancer. The intent was to turn off the gene that causes the problem and expresses the protein. Lehmann and Parang worked to develop a molecule to bind with the gene to prevent the production of the protein.

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If you hadn’t noticed the white lab coats and the identification badges, you might have thought you were at a giant game show.

Hosts were equipped with microphones, and they spun a large wheel to determine which group would answer questions from a variety of case studies. When brave participants volunteered to respond on the spot for their groups, there were smiles and laughter among the crowd.

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A University of Rhode Island undergraduate majoring in chemistry hopes to unveil the secrets of the garden in her search for natural treatments for such killers as breast cancer.

Caroline Killian worked this summer in a laboratory mashing up berries and doing extensive tests to find the degree of anti-cancer activity that the Eugenia jambolana berry produced. It is traditionally used as a pre-insulin treatment for diabetes but Killian dared to question what kind of healing power it has against cancer?

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He’s been here less than a year, but Navindra Seeram is already putting the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy back in the spotlight for its research on plants, including the health benefits of medicinal foods such as fruits and vegetables.

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Dr. Navindra Seeram featured on Health Check 10
November 18, 08 | November 19, 08

The University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy has honored alumnus Robert Tortolani with the Introductory Pharmacy Practice “Preceptor of the Year” award.

Preceptors oversee pharmacy students’ clinical experiences and serve as mentors. The students nominate candidates for the awards.

“I love to teach new pharmacists,” the Johnston resident said. “It’s so rewarding. I always tell them, ‘If you learn your pharmacy skills in school, I will teach you the business in the business world."

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