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So I want to go more into letting go of control and setting the vision and being kind of the leader, but hiring really talented people to come in and support you execute on the vision.

But first, when you went back, when you were in pharmacy school or even further back, like when you were in high school, do you think it was your vision to own a functional medicine education platform for pharmacists.

Was that the plan? No.

My original plan when I decided to go to pharmacy school specifically, I was working in an independent pharmacy in Monroe.

And so I was going to go to Ohio Northern and then I was going to like own my own pharmacy.

That was the plan.

Wow.

And so I was like...

Chen, 36, trained as a pastry chef and once owned a bakery in Denver, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She then went back to school and graduated from the University of Tennessee's Health Center's College of Pharmacy last year, subsequently getting hired on as a pharmacist at a local Kroger supermarket.

So she went back to school, reinvented herself and was ready for the next part of her life.

But according to authorities, this dirty son of a bitch, he killed her instead.

I think you would be fair to argue that immune checkpoint inhibitor maintenance in durvalumab by itself is not a fair comparison because we do have data of lurbanectin and atizolizumab being better than atizolizumab, durvalumab, and atizolab, both immune checkpoint inhibitors, right? You might make that argument.

Well, right as I was coming into my office to record, I saw I had in my mailbox at the College of Pharmacy, still get mail, from the manufacturer of lurbanectin.

And it's basically a dear doctor letter saying that we are voluntarily removing lurbanectin's approval as monotherapy.

in the second line setting for extensive stage small cell lung cancer because of a negative study.

He's the CEO of the Central SC Alliance.

Then we have Dr. Stephen Cutler, Vice President for Economic Development and the Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of South Carolina.

Gentlemen, thanks for being with us today.

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And then we're building the neurological hospital and rehabilitation center.

There is nothing like this in the state of South Carolina.

And then future plans, the General Assembly has done a phase one appropriation for the College of Pharmacy to be relocated there.

I think over time, if we talk about long-term vision, we're going to see all the health sciences on that campus, and you're going to see this integration of scientists, faculty, students who are now working in a collaborative manner that's going to advance health care for the state of South Carolina, as well as develop products and techniques and diagnostic tools that I think will be used worldwide.

I'm a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Joseph University of Beirut and at Sorbonne University in Paris.

I'm also the honorary dean of the School of Pharmacy in Beirut at Saint Joseph University and the director of the School of Medical Lab Technicians and the director of the Lab of Biochemistry and Molecular Therapeutics at the same university.

I completed my doctorate in pharmacy in Lebanon and followed up by specialization in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine.

I began a joint PhD between Paris Descartes University and Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

Professor Abifadel, your work beautifully bridges molecular genetics and clinical medicine.

What initially attracted you to the field of FH and cardiovascular genetics? And as a woman in science, were there any particular challenges or barriers you encountered along the way?

During my studies in the School of Pharmacy in Lebanon, in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine also, I studied liver disorders, including their epidemiology in Lebanon.

I also worked a little bit on LP little a at the beginning.

So as you mentioned, when we first kicked off the conversation, I went to Xavier University of Louisiana.

And I'm a proud graduate of the College of Pharmacy.

And so for many years, I have worked inside of a health care organization as a pharmacist.

And I still currently do some clinical days in a hospital.

And I'm Jamie Folk.

I'm an associate professor at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Meditoba.

Yeah.

And so, Jamie, do you like to take your drugs orally or I am? Or with needles, I mean.