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Siripan Phattanarudee, Anais Lorne and Alejandro Pino
Milena Stryczynska
Milena Stryczynska and Dr. Monica Chuong

Six International Students Visit Boston Through IPSF Program

Six international students are visiting MCPHS-Boston this summer as part of the International Pharmacy Students Federation (IPSF) Exchange Programme. Over the next four weeks, students Katarzyna Sonta (Poland), Michelle Wan Lin Tan (Singapore), Milena Stryczynska (Poland), Vera Slankamenac (Serbia), Anett Heinzlmann (Hungary), and Anais Lorne (France) will be rotate between four sites while practicing internal medicine, conducting research and working in a community pharmacy setting. During the week of July 23rd, Anais Lorne and Milena Stryczynska were paired on the Boston campus with Dr. Timothy Maher, professor of Pharmacy and Dr. Monica Chuong, assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, respectively.

Lorne, along with graduate student Siripan Phattanarudee, researched the exposure of rats in utero and during lactation to metal toxicants, work that is supported by the National Institutes of Health and is part of a large project with Harvard School of Public Health. She also assisted with experiments looking at the neuroprotective effects of extracts from the Maca plant with graduate student Alejandro Pino. In the Iorio Lab, Stryczynska worked on pharmaceutical research and compounding, and also conducted a disintegration study with aspirin and calcium products.

The International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation was founded in 1949 by eight pharmacy student associations in London. The Federation now represents around 350,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 61 countries worldwide. IPSF initiatives focus mainly on the areas of public health and pharmacy education, and the group holds official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and operational relations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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