Dr. Tony Zhou, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, from Purdue University is the recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from The Aerosol Society in UK.
This award recognizes significant scientific accomplishment or innovation during the early stages of an individual’s career in inhalation science.
Koyel Sen, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Bodhi Chaudhuri at UConn, was awarded one of 4 travelships by the Particle Technology Forum of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers at the 2019 AIChE annual meeting and sponsored by Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics.
Nanodiscs of peptide nucleic acids (stable mimics of DNA) penetrate tumor cells as illustrated on the cover of the July 2019 volume of NANOSCALE. Read more
Dr. Raman Bahal (UConn) recently received a grant to intensify his research to combat Burkett’s Lymphoma, the fastest growing cancer in humans. Read more about Dr. Bahal’s research and Jack Klein, the boy from Indianapolis after whom the grant was named.
Dana Moseson (center), graduate student in the lab of Dr. Lynne Taylor (left) at Purdue University, won a graduate student award from the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) Americas Foundation. The award was presented by CPPR Faculty, Dr. Diane Burgess (right), who serves on the IPEC Americas Board of Directors.
The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers awarded CPPR student, Sameera Sansare, the 2019 Joel Goldenberg Memorial Scholarship. See more at https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/sameera-sansare-awarded-prestigious-ispe-scholarship/
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).
