Month: June 2025

CPPR Student Receives Academic Research Award at AAPS Conference

CPPR student, Saeed Najafian, from the lab of Dr. Bodhi Chaudhuri at UConn School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with CPPR mentors Parind Desai and Elaheh Ardalani from GSK, received 3rd place in the Academic Research Award for his presentation: CFD-DEM modeling of Suspension Mixing in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing at the recent AAPS NERDG Conference which was held in April 2025 in Groton, CT. Congratulations, Saeed!

Steve Nail Emerging Researcher Award

CPPR Student, Mittal Darji, from the lab of Professor Xiuling Lu, was the recipient of the Steve Nail Emerging Researcher Award at the CPPR Scientific Conference held at University of Connecticut in May 2025. Vahid Zia from Gilead presented Mittal with the award.