Dr. Bahal has been selected to receive 2024 RNA Society Moderna Award for Biomedical Innovation in RNA. This award recognizes Dr. Bahal’s innovative research for targeting of RNA in biomedicine. Congratulations Dr. Bahal!

Congratulations to graduate student Sai Pallavi Pradeep who won the UConn’s RNA salon travel award  2023.

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.