Shipra Malik, graduate student in Dr. Raman Bahal’s lab presented her research on “Next generation targeting of oncomiRs using phosphorothioates in conjunction with nanotechnology” at the AAPS NorthEast Regional Discussion Group meeting in Farmington, CT on April 11, 2019. For her outstanding presentation, Shipra was awarded the top Academic Research Award at the conference.
CPPR Student, Dana Moseson, with Professor Lynne Taylor (Purdue University) published a portion of their CPPR project in a paper in Crystal Growth & Design entitled, “Dissolution of Indomethacin Crystals into a Polymer Melt: Role of Diffusion and Fragmentation” (DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00200)
Ms. Koyel Sen, student of Dr. Bodhi Chaudhuri (UConn), won the highly competitive Best Poster Award at the Particle Technology Forum Poster Session, a part of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October, 2019.
At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the International Society of Lyophilization – Freeze Drying (ISLFD) on April 11, 2019, Lauren Fontana won top honors for her poster, “Raman Spectral Changes in Lyophilized Proteins for Screening Formulation Stability Rank Order”. Lauren, a doctoral student of Prof. Robin Bogner, was also selected to present a talk at the meeting on her CPPR project results.
In collaboration with a pharmaceutical company, CPPR faculty Diane Burgess and her CPPR student, Tingting Li, along with UCHC Dentisty faculty, Dr. Rajesh Lalla, have developed a formulation containing a local anesthetic and medium chain fatty acid for treatment of oral mucositis. The formulation is sprayed as a liquid and gels on contact to provide local, sustained relief of mouth ulcers resulting from cancer treatments. Read more.
Xiuling Lu, Associate Director of the Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research, was awarded the 2019 Robert L. McCarthy Faculty Service Award. In addition to her service to CPPR, Dr. Lu has developed student-learning assistance programs, serves the SinoAmerican Pharmaceutical Association, and much more……
Andre Beringhs (UConn), Bruna Minatovicz (UConn), Geoff Zhang (CPPR IAB from Abbvie), Bodhi Chaudhuri (UConn), and Xiuling Lu published their CPPR research findings on “Impact of Porous Excipients on the Manufacturability and Product Performance of Solid Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems” in AAPS PharmSci Tech, 19(7):3298-3310 (2018). 
Shreya Kulkarni, a doctoral candidate in the Bogner lab at UConn, was awarded one of six Tier I Baxter Young Investigator awards at the headquarters of Baxter in Illinois in October 2018.
Dana Moseson, graduate student in Lynne Taylor’s lab at Purdue University describe the characterization of residual crystallinity in hot melt extrudates down to the nanometer-scale using a suite of techniques. See Moseson DE, Mugheirbi NA, Stewart AA, Taylor LS. Nanometer-Scale Residual Crystals in a Hot Melt Extruded Amorphous Solid Dispersion: Characterization by Transmission Electron Microscopy. Crystal Growth & Design. 2018 Oct 26;18(12):7633-40.
Professor Tai-Hsi Fan (UConn Dept of Mechanical Engineering) along with colleagues at the UConn School of Pharmacy, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and MedImunne published an article describing “Phase-Field Modeling of Freeze Concentration of Protein Solutions” in the journal, Polymers (2019) Vol. 11, article 10.
