Media advisory: US Sen. Jerry Moran to visit School of Pharmacy
Editor's note: This is now a closed event to media. Please contact the School of Pharmacy for more information.
LAWRENCE — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, will visit the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy from 9-11:45 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13. He will be accompanied by Jon Lorsch and Fred Taylor of the National Institutes of Health IDeA program.
The group will meet with Thomas Prisinzano, professor and chair of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, and Scott Hefty, associate professor in molecular biosciences, and see a presentation of the researchers’ COBRE Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease project, recently funded by an NIH grant. Prisinzano and Hefty will lead the visitors on a tour of their laboratory following the presentation.
Ken Audus, dean of the School of Pharmacy, and Neeli Bendapudi, provost and executive vice chancellor, will also attend the welcome and presentation.
Media are invited to attend. Please call Jackie Hosey, 785-691-6458 or jhosey@ku.edu, to arrange interviews or photographs.