{"id":14138,"date":"2023-02-24T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:21:46","slug":"umes-graduate-student-awarded-2023-phrma-predoctoral-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/umes-graduate-student-awarded-2023-phrma-predoctoral-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES graduate student awarded 2023 PhRMA predoctoral fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rhashanda Haywood<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Soaring above and beyond is just what Rhashanda Haywood<\/strong> is doing as one of 18 researchers who were awarded a total of nearly $1.3 million by PhRMA Foundation as 2023 award recipients.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of 300 applicants, Haywood was awarded the PhRMA predoctoral fellowship, which provides a stipend of $25,000 per year for up to two years and allows for $1,000 a year to be used for incidentals directly associated with the thesis research preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was ecstatic. It was an overwhelming experience. I thought \u2018should I go after this?\u2019 I included it on my vision board,\u201d Haywood said about applying and receiving her fellowship award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PhRMA Foundation \u201cfosters biopharmaceutical innovation and value-driven health care by investing in the frontiers of research. The Foundation catalyzes the careers of promising researchers through competitive, peer-reviewed grants and fellowships in the fields of drug delivery, drug discovery, translational medicine, health outcomes research and value assessment.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haywood is studying pharmaceutical sciences in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Her predoctoral fellowship award is in the area of drug discovery. Her research is focused on \u201canti-seizure agents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haywood performs research in a lab at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy hope is that my research leads to a compound that has the potential to become a Food and Drug Administration approved anti-seizure agent,\u201d she said. The Spartanburg, S.C. native earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry from Johnson C. Smith University and a master\u2019s degree in chemistry from North Carolina A&T University. \u201cUMES\u2019 pharmaceutical sciences program gave me exposure to the drug discovery and drug development process,\u201d Haywood said about the UMES\u2019 role in her research and helping her achieve her goals. Haywood\u2019s goal is to be a professor to serve in academia and still perform research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRhashanda is a hard-working graduate student. She is dedicated to her research of designing and synthesizing small molecules for drug resistant epilepsy and generalized epilepsy. I am very proud of Rhashanda to have received this prestigious fellowship. Our research is helping to put UMES on the map. We soar like the hawk,\u201d said Dr. Patrice Ayotunde, the Richard A. Bernstein Endowed Professor and professor of medicinal chemistry who works closely with Haywood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to change the space for young Black scientists,\u201d Haywood said about the impact of her research and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Tahja Cropper<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soaring above and beyond is just what Rhashanda Haywood is doing as one of 18 researchers who were awarded a total of nearly $1.3 million by PhRMA Foundation as 2023 award recipients.\u00a0 Out of 300 applicants, Haywood was awarded the PhRMA predoctoral fellowship, which provides a stipend of $25,000 per year for up to two…Read more UMES graduate student awarded 2023 PhRMA predoctoral fellowship<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[121,137,135,139,141,140,136,138,120],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hbcu","tag-pharmaceutical-sciences","tag-phrma","tag-phrma-foundation","tag-phrma-predoctoral-fellowship","tag-rhashanda-haywood","tag-school-of-graduate-studies","tag-stem","tag-umes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}