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‘.
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Graduate student Aniket Wahane received Best Poster award at Gordon Research Seminar
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‘.
Dr. Shipra Malik successfully defended her PhD dissertation!
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!
Graduate Student Shipra Malik is the recipient of 2022 NIPTE Outstanding Student Research Award
Congratulations to Shipra Malik for receiving the 2022 NIPTE Outstanding Student Research Award.
Graduate student Sai Pallavi Pradeep received first prize at UConn’s 3MT competition!
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.
Five graduate students from Bahal Lab become finalists for UCONN 3MT thesis competition
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.
Graduate Student Shipra Malik is the recipient of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) travel grant award
Congratulations to Shipra Malik for receiving a travel grant award from Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) for presenting her research at the Annual OTS meeting in October 2022.
Graduate Student Shipra Malik is the recipient of Steve Nail’s Emerging Researcher Award at Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (CPPR) May 2022 meeting
Graduate student Shipra Malik presented her research titled “Effect of freeze-drying using cryoprotectants on the stability of nucleic acid loaded PLGA nanoparticles” at the 2022 Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (CPPR) May meeting. She was awarded the “Steve Nail’s Emerging Researcher Award” for her research poster presentation at the conference. Congratulations!!!
Dr. Bahal is promoted to Associate Professor position with full tenure!
Congratulations to Dr. Bahal as he is promoted to the Associate professor position with full tenure. Thanks to the UConn community, collaborators, and funding agencies for their support.
Graduate students Shipra Malik and Karishma Dhuri are recipients of Dr. Edward A. and Dr. Lamia H. Khairallah Graduate Fellowship 2022!
Congratulations to Shipra Malik and Karishma Dhuri for becoming recipients of 2022 Dr. Edward A. and Dr. Lamia H. Khairallah Graduate Fellowship.