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Pharmacology Professor Recognized for Research |
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Deanna Lytle |
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Apr 30, 2003 |
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| Dr. Kenneth Bachmann in the lab |
This year’s recipient of the Sigma Xi/Dion D. Raftopoulos Award for Outstanding Research at The University of Toledo is Dr. Kenneth Bachmann, Distinguished University Professor of Pharmacology.
Even though he knew he was nominated, "it was still surprising," said Bachmann, a UT faculty member since 1973. He was honored during the recent Sigma Xi Annual Banquet.
Dr. Wayne Hoss, associate dean for graduate studies and research in the College of Pharmacy, nominated Bachmann for the award. "It had to do with his own research, his training of graduate students, and his mentoring of junior faculty members in research," Hoss said.
Bachmann studies mechanisms in drug-drug interactions and their clinical consequences. Unlike the type of drug interactions that produce pharmacological side effects, Bachmann studies how one drug affects the way the body processes another drug. "Through the liver’s metabolism of drugs, one drug can accelerate or slow the hepatic metabolism of another drug," he explained. And since the liver processes nearly every drug to one extent or another, this opens the door for many interactions, Bachmann said. "These types of
interactions can be harder to predict, but they have significant effects," he said.
Bachmann is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and co-director of the Center for Applied Pharmacology, a collaborative effort between UT and St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center.
Bachmann was presented with a plaque and a check for $1,500, but said neither of those things really matter. "Most important is the recognition," he said.
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