Seven trainees from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy were awarded Presidential Trainee Awards from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, or ASCPT, during the organization’s annual meeting in March.
The awards are given annually to the top-scoring abstracts submitted by clinical pharmacologists and translational scientists in training. UF College of Pharmacy trainees won 7 of the 21 awards presented this year, which is the most among any college or university nationally. It is the sixth time in the last seven years that the UF College of Pharmacy led the nation in Presidential Trainee Award winners.

Nam Nguyen, Pharm.D., a graduate student in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational science, won the 2022 David J. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Presidential Trainee Award — which is given annually to the top-scoring abstract. It’s the fifth time in the last eight years, that a UF College of Pharmacy trainee has won the Goldstein award.

In addition to Nguyen, the following trainees from the UF College of Pharmacy also won Presidential Trainee Awards:

For Thomas, this is the third time he has won the award, while the other recipients were first-time winners. Since 2016, the UF College of Pharmacy has won 35 ASCPT Presidential Trainee Awards, the most earned by any college or university.