Congratulations to graduate student Sai Pallavi Pradeep who won the UConn’s Conference Participation Award  2023.

Dr. Bahal has been selected to receive the 2023 AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) Emerging Leader Award.  Congratulations Dr. Bahal!

Congratulations to Dr. Karishma Dhuri for defending her thesis. Karishma did an excellent job and will join Abbvie in Fall 2023. We wish her all the best!

Congratulations to graduate student Vishal Kasina who is the recipient of a travel grant for oral presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar-Preclinical Form and Formulation for Drug Discovery. He presented his research titled ‘Next Generation Poly-L-histidine Formulations for miRNA Mimic Delivery‘.

Congratulations to graduate student Aniket Wahane for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Seminar-Preclinical Form and Formulation for Drug Discovery. He presented his poster titled ‘Lactobionic acid and N-Acetylgalactosamine-conjugated Peptide Nucleic Acids for in vivo targeting of hepatocytes‘.

Congratulations to Dr. Shipra Malik for her outstanding doctoral dissertation defense session in December 2022. She is the first graduate of Bahal’s lab. She will be joining Verve Therapeutics. We wish her all the best!

Congratulations to Shipra Malik for receiving the 2022 NIPTE Outstanding Student Research Award.

Congratulations to Sai Pallavi Pradeep for having won first place in 3 minute thesis competition organized by the Graduate School at UConn. She presented her work titled ‘Stabilizing mRNA for therapeutics’. She will represent UConn at the U21 global 3MT competition 2022.

Congratulations to Karishma Dhuri, Aniket Wahane, Vishal Kasina, Shahab Edalatian Zakeri and Sai Pallavi Pradeep for being finalists for the 3 minute thesis competition organized by the Graduate School at UConn.