Belmont University | FYI


July 3, 2008

BELMONT NEWS


School of Pharmacy Partners with CET Life Sciences Center
BUSOPlab2.jpgCumberland Emerging Technologies, Inc. (CET) announced this week that Belmont University has established the Belmont School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory at the CET Life Sciences Center. The Life Sciences Center, which is located in downtown Nashville, provides lab and office space, equipment and infrastructure to early-stage biopharmaceutical ventures.

Belmont has leased the space to support research and service programs of its School of Pharmacy. The primary objective of the lab is to provide dosage form development, characterization and quality analysis. The school will work with the pharmaceutical industry and local and regional health care providers to meet previously unmet and arising needs related to drug delivery.

"The work being performed at the Life Sciences Center is designed to help provide drug delivery solutions, which is unique to pharmacy practice and which, until now, has not played a major role in middle Tennessee's robust health care scene," said Dr. Andrew Webster (pictured above), chair and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Belmont's School of Pharmacy. "By partnering with CET, our faculty and students have access to a community of resources to help advance research that will help drug developers bring their products to patients who need them most."

"We are delighted to welcome Belmont School of Pharmacy to our growing roster of tenants at the Life Sciences Center," said A.J. Kazimi, chief executive officer of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals and CET. "Partnering with outstanding academic research and training programs like this one is a key component of CET’s strategy, and we look forward to providing laboratory and equipment infrastructure to support their promising research." For more on this story, click here.

Belmont Launches Parent Association
The Office of New Student & Parents Programs in collaboration with the Office of Development launched the inaugural Belmont Parent Association June 1. The initiative began on Parent & Family Weekend 2007 with the establishment of the Belmont Parent Online Community. The Web site for the online community, now with more than 725 members, features the parent event calendar, Belmont news and opportunities to connect parents and families to Belmont and each other.

To date, the Parent Association, in conjunction with the online community, has raised $14,000 in its first month of operation to support the Association and the Belmont Annual Fund. Upcoming Parent & Family Events include Welcome Week (new parents) and Parent & Family Weekend.

The Parent Association (http://parents.belmont.edu) is open to all parents of current students or parents of alumni through the established membership process. The Belmont University Parent Association serves as an opportunity for parents to promote and support the educational mission of the university by acting as advocates for students, parents and the university. One half of the Parent Association annual membership fee is used for programming purposes while the remaining amount becomes a designated tax-deductible gift to the Belmont Annual Fund.


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