On her path toward nearly destroying the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, former Interim President Castell Bryant also blocked a proposal that seemed like an issue of common sense: creating an influenza lab and vaccination production plant at FAMU.The flu lab was proposed by Professor Henry Lewis, who had recently stepped down as pharmacy dean. With the nation facing shortages in flu vaccine doses, he envisioned FAMU as future leader in battling this problem.
Castell made every excuse she could to derail the proposal. She gave newspapers lame and misleading statements claiming that she had not received any detailed information about the proposed lab.
After killing flu lab proposal, Castell also ignored the pharmacy faculty’s warnings about how her mismanagement was jeopardizing the school’s accreditation. Bryant failed to release operating dollars that school needed and refused to spend legislative money that had been appropriated for building new research and laboratory space.
In February 2007, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education placed FAMU’s pharmacy college on probation.
Would have been a goldmine for FAMU.
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RN was a great help to the movement.
ReplyDeleteand 3 years later swine flu breaks out. Had FAMU had the lab in place come 2009 when there was a huge shortage of H1N1 vaccination...
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