Sharks RX Spring 2015 Magazine

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY r 15 BY NANCY MCVICAR AND MICHELLE F. SOLOMON working to defeat cancer at the molecular level Growing up in Waterbury, Connecticut, Jean Johanna Latimer thought she wanted to be a scientist, or maybe a journalist. Then a friend in her grammar school class was diag- nosed with leukemia and later died from the disease. Witnessing her friend’s illness made Latimer want to go into research to help end such suffering, she said. “I realized where I should put my energies,” said Latimer, an associate professor in NSU’s Making an Impact