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. 

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!!!

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.

Congratulations to Shipra Malik and Karishma Dhuri for becoming recipients of 2022 Dr. Edward A. and Dr. Lamia H. Khairallah Graduate Fellowship. 

Aniket Wahane presented his research titled “Dual-Modality Poly‑L‑histidine Nanoparticles to Deliver Peptide Nucleic Acids and Paclitaxel for In Vivo Cancer Therapy” at NIPTE (National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education) 2021 annual research conference. He was awarded first place for his research poster presentation at the conference. Congratulations!!!

Vishal Kasina presented his research titled “Nanoparticle-mediated delivery of miRNA mimics” at NIPTE (National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education) 2021 annual research conference. He was awarded second place for his research poster presentation at the conference. Congratulations!!!