Professor Agnes Llamasares-Castillo, PhD, RPh of the Department of Pharmacy was hailed as the 2024 National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) Achievement Awardee for the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences on March 13, 2025. Castillo joined fellow awardees during the NRCP鈥檚 Annual Scientific Conference and 92nd General Membership Assembly at the Philippine International Convention Center.
Among Castillo鈥檚 research highlights are drug delivery of natural products and product development. Her work with natural products and pharmacology have been published in journals such as Current Enzyme Inhibition, the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, and Neurotoxicology. Conditions that have been the subject of her studies include Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, osteoarthritis, and myeloid leukemia.
A decorated academic, she has been feted with the 2023 The Outstanding Pharmacist Award in Research by the Philippine Pharmacists Association, Inc. and the 2021 Best Mentor in Health Research Award by the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development. Recently, she was also named a recipient of the 2025 Faces of PACOP Award (Research Category) by the Philippine Association of College of Pharmacy.
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Llamasares-Castillo teaches at the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Graduate School and is an academic researcher at the Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences. She has recently partnered with Assoc. Prof. Donald G. Manlapaz, PhD, PTRP to establish the GRACE HUB with support from the TOMASInno Technology Business Incubator of the University.
The NRCP Achievement Award was established in 1979 to recognize 鈥渕embers for their significant contributions to their respective fields.鈥� Among UST鈥檚 NRCP Achievement Awardees are Prof. Mario A. Tan, PhD (Chemical Sciences, 2023), Prof. Jovencio G. Apostol, PhD (Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017), Prof. Allan B. de Guzman, PhD (Governmental, Educational, and International Policies, 2006), and Prof. Maria Natalia R. Dimaano, PhD (Engineering and Technology, 2009).
