Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Dr. Vikas Kumar and graduate student Hamayal Sharma for receiving the UConn RNA Salon Travel Award 2025.

We’re delighted to share that BioRender has recognized the work from Bahal’s Lab. Congratulations to Dr. Raman Bahal and Dr. Vikas Kumar for being selected as recipients of the BioRender Grant Support Initiative.

Congratulations to graduate student Sai Pallavi Pradeep for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society (OTS) 2025 Annual Meeting held in Budapest, Hungary.

Sai Pallavi Pradeep is the recipient of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society (OTS) Travel Award and has been invited to present her DNA-targeted work at the OTS conference in Budapest. Congratulations Sai!

Congratulations to Dr. Vishal Kasina on the successful defense of his thesis. He performed commendably, and we extend our best wishes for his future endeavors.

Congratulations to Dr. Bahal on being selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for 2025 — a prestigious recognition of his impactful contributions to the field. https://nam.edu/news-and-insights/nam-announces-10-emerging-leaders-in-health-and-medicine-2025/

Congratulation Angana De on receiving first place for Academic Research Award at AAPS Northeastern Regional Discussion Group (NERDG), 2025.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Raman Bahal has been selected as the 2025 “Faculty Research Advising Award” recipient in recognition of his exceptional undergraduate/Pharm.D. research mentorship. He will receive the award at the UConn commencement ceremony, 2025.

We are pleased to announce that postdoctoral associate Dr. Vikas has been selected to present his research work as an oral presentation at the prestigious Harvard Initiative for RNA Medicine’s (HiRM) 10th Annual Symposium.

Congratulations to graduate student Vishal Kasina who is the recipient of R.E. Singiser Memorial Fellowship award.