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Daniel J. Crona, PharmD, PhD, CPP, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member working to advance public health by integrating epigenetics, developmental therapeutics, and clinical pharmacology into clinical and translational research that optimizes treatment strategies for hematology/oncology patients.

PharmD, PhD, CPP
Assistant Professor, Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
UNC-Chapel Hill
Molecular Therapeutics

Area of Interest

My overarching career goal to advance public health by integrating epigenetics, developmental therapeutics, and clinical pharmacology into clinical and translational research that optimizes treatment strategies for hematology/oncology patients. As a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, my clinical and translational research program focuses on a functional genomics paradigm that helps reveal molecular mechanisms that underlie the interplay between patient genotype, phenotype, and epigenetics. Molecular mechanism information is then integrated with clinical pharmacology (e.g., pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics) to optimize drug selection and dosing.

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Awards and Honors

  • Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association Early Career Research Award, 2019
  • IBM Junior Faculty Development Award, 2019
  • American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Research Institute Junior Investigator Award, 2018
  • Postdoctoral fellow, UNC-Duke-Hamner Institute Collaborative Clinical Pharmacology Training Program (NIH/NIGMS 5T32GM086330-04), 2014-2015
  • GlaxoSmithKline Dissertation Fellowship, 2014
  • Kathryne A. Brewington Award (2014–2015 Outstanding Graduate Student in Pharmaceutical Sciences), UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, 2014
  • Frank Porter Graham Honor Society Inductee, UNC Graduate School, 2013
  • Kaiser Permanente Kent M. Nelson Memorial Clinical Pharmacy Scholar, CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2008–2010
  • Rho Chi Pharmacy Academic Honor Society Inductee, 2008
  • Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Honor Society Inductee, 2008
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