Congratulations to graduate student Sai Pallavi Pradeep who won the third prize for Academic Research Award at AAPS-NERDG 2023 annual meeting.

Congratulations to graduate student Aniket Wahane who is recipient of the Gerald J. Jackson Memorial Fellowship Award.

Congratulations to graduate student Karishma Dhuri who is the recipient of Karl. A. Herzog Memorial Fellowship Award.

Our recently published work in Science Advances has been covered in a number of news outlets.

Please check these out:

https://today.uconn.edu/2023/02/pharmacy-researchers-develop-treatment-for-glioblastoma/

https://news.yale.edu/2023/02/08/new-treatment-merges-two-technologies-fight-brain-cancer

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-pharmacy-nanoparticle-based-treatment-glioblastoma.html

Our work with our collaborators, Drs. Naftali and Farida got published in JCI insight on treating fibrosis.

Check out this news:

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/inhibition-of-small-rna-in-lung-macrophages-may-counter-pulmonary-fibrosis/

Congratulation to our first lab alumni, Dr. Shipra Malik, on becoming a featured member of the prestigious Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society (OTS). You can read her interview below:

Interview with Shipra Malik, PhD

 

Congratulations to graduate student Karishma Dhuri for joining CRISPR therapeutics for her summer internship in 2022.

Graduate student Vishal Kasina presented his research titled “Nanoparticle-mediated delivery of miRNA mimics” at the 2022 AAPS-NERDG annual research conference. He was awarded the “Judge’s Choice Award” for his research poster presentation at the conference. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to Shipra Malik for having won first place in 3 minute thesis competition organized by the Graduate School at UConn. She presented her work titled ‘Precise and Safe Genome Engineering’.  

The review article titled “Emerging Therapeutic Modalities against COVID-19” provides a comprehensive overview and update of current therapeutic interventions in clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19.