UA Researchers Receive National Award
in Preventive Nutrition
From: Ginny Geib, (520) 626-3389, geib@pharmacy.arizona.edu
Two professors of pharmacology and toxicology at
The University of Arizona College of
Pharmacy have received a national academic award for their research
with niacin and niacin-derived molecules.
Elaine Jacobson and
Myron (Mike) Jacobson were
presented the
The husband and wife, who also are members of the
Their efforts to translate knowledge of niacin function
toward clinical applications led to the 1997 founding of Niadyne, Inc., a
The National Cancer Institute has selected one of the
novel compounds developed by the Jacobsons for the topical delivery of niacin
for evaluation as a skin cancer prevention agent.
The
The Jacobsons are the ninth recipients of the award,
which carried a cash prize of $6,000. Previous awardees include William
Shive of the University of Texas at Austin, Bruce N. Ames of the University of
California at Berkeley, Richard J. Wurtman of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Scott Grundy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Hector F. DeLuca of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Robert I. Levy of
Columbia University, Vernon R. Young of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and George Beaton of the University of Toronto.
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