CPPR Student Wei-Chung Luo was awarded best poster for his CPPR project “Impact of Lyoprotectants and Freeze-Drying Process on Stability of Nanocarriers” at the 2019 East Coast Meeting of the International Society of Lyophilization – Freeze Drying (ISLFD) on September 17th, 2019, held at MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD.

Jayesh Sonje, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Dr. Raj Suryanarayanan’s lab, received a travel grant for performing small angle neutron scattering experiments to understand protein aggregation in frozen systems.  The outreach program encourages first-time users, provides them with essential educational opportunity to visit the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) facility in Maryland, and enables them to carry out experiments with the guidance of NIST scientific staff. 

Professor Changquan “Calvin” Sun is being honored for his many contributions in the study of excipients and excipient-related technology.  He joins previous CPPR Shangraw awardees, Professor Raj Suryanarayanan (University of Minnesota) and Professors Diane Burgess and Robin Bogner (University of Connecticut).

The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education announced its 2019 awardees, including recently graduated CPPR Student, Dr. Shreya Kulkarni, from the Bogner Lab at University of Connecticut.  Shreya was awarded for her dissertation research including findings from a CPPR project on reconstitution of high concentration lyophilized proteins.  Dr. Kulkarni is now with Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Lots of folks stopped by our booth on September 17, 2019 to pick up a CPPR flash drive and learn more about the opportunities available with CPPR membership for their companies.

Jayesh Sonje, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Dr. Raj Suryanarayanan’s lab, was selected among 25 posters  for the poster ‘Influence of excipients on physical form of mannitol in frozen and freeze-dried formulations’ at the poster session conducted at 2019 Preclinical Form and Formulation for Drug Discovery, Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire.

Dr. Na Li joined University of Connecticut Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in August 2019 as Assistant Professor.  Her research area is oral dosage forms.  Read more at https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/new-school-pharmacy-faculty-member-na-li/

Three webinars delivered by esteemed CPPR faculty are available again for your viewing at https://cppr.uconn.edu/webinars/

“Drug Solubility and Solubilization-Impact of Solid-State Properties and Solution Phase Phenomena,” by Dr. Rodolfo Pinal-Purdue University

“Advances in Freeze-drying: Controlled Ice Nucleation,” by Dr. Michael Pikal-University of Connecticut

“Stabilization of Amorphous Phases,” by Dr. Raj Suryananrayanan-University of Minnesota

 

 

The next meeting of the Dane Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (CPPR) will be held on October 21-23, 2019 at the University of Minnesota.  The deadline for proposals is September 13, 2019.  Please contact your Site Director if you plan to submit a proposal.  Interested scientists and engineers from non-member companies who would like to request an invitation to the meeting should contact cppr@uconn.edu.

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Koyel Sen, doctoral candidate in the lab of Dr. Bodhi Chaudhuri, took first place in the university-wide competition.  She will represent UConn at the international competition.  Read more at UConn Today