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.

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. 

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