Alumnus Hong Shen holds a plaque given to him by his coworkers at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in Princeton, N.J. where he is a preclinical pharmacokinetic investigator. The plaque honors Shen’s achievement in receiving the James R. Gillette Drug Metabolism Best Paper of 2007 award.
Alumnus Hong Shen, PostDoc’02, PhD’06, was the recipient of the James R. Gillette Drug Metabolism Best Paper of 2007, bestowed by the awards selection committee of the Drug Metabolism Division at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Shen was first author on the paper, “Impact of Genetic Knockout of PEPT2 on Cefadroxil Pharmacokinetics, Renal Tubular Reabsorption and Brain Penetration in Mice.” The paper, based upon research Shen conducted while a graduate student at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, appeared in the Vol. 35, No. 7, 2007 issue of the journal Drug Metabolism and Disposition. His College of Pharmacy coauthors included Scott Ocheltree, PhD’05, and David E. Smith, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Smith also was Shen’s PhD advisor.
Shen is currently a preclinical pharmacokinetic investigator at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in Princeton, N.J.
The Gillette Award is named in honor of the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
As part of the award, Shen was invited to present his College research group’s findings at the April 2008 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, Cal.
