The next CPPR Scientific Conference will be held at Purdue University on November 12-14, 2024.

CPPR Student, Zixuan Zhen, from the lab of Professor Xiuling Lu was named the Steve Nail Emerging Researcher at the CPPR Scientific Conference held at University of Connecticut in May 2024.  Lindsay Wegiel from Eli Lilly presented Zixuan with the award.

Professor Raman Bahal from University of Connecticut was honored by the Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society as this year’s Young Investigator.  He received the award at the Annual Meeting last October in Barcelona, Spain.  Read more at UConn Today

 

The inaugural Michael J. Pikal Symposium will be held at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy on August 14-15, 2024.  A preconference Hands-on Short Course on Lyophilization will be held August 13-14, 2024.  To learn more and register, click on https://pharmacy.uconn.edu/conferences/.

Fifty industrial scientists, faculty and students met at University of Connecticut to review progress on projects, propose new projects and hear reports on completed projects.  The Industrial Advisory Board voted to fund to new projects.

CPPR faculty Prof Tony Zhou is invited to serve as an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Pharmacology (IF 5.6) and Early Career Advisory Board Member at ACS Infectious Diseases (IF 5.3).  Frontiers in Pharmacology is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on the interactions between drugs and living beings to prevent and cure human disease.  ACS Infectious Diseases is the first journal to highlight chemistry and its role in the multidisciplinary and collaborative field of infectious disease research.  

Save the date to meet with faculty, students, and scientists from the pharmaceutical industry at the University of Connecticut.  If you are not a CPPR member and would like to be invited to the meeting, please email us at cppr@uconn.edu

Ling Zhu, graduate student in Robin Bogner’s lab at UConn, was recognized for his research on pharmaceutical excipients by the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council Foundation.  Ling joins a long list of CPPR students who have won this prestigious award, including Dana Moseson (Purdue University), Andre Beringhs (UConn), Tingting Li (UConn), and Jayesh Sonje (University of Minnesota). 

On June 18, 2024, UConn Professor, Diane Burgess will be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors at their annual meeting. Read more at NAI Announces 2023 Class of Fellows – NAI (academyofinventors.org) 

CPPR student, Tanu Mehta, from the laboratory of Dr. Bodhi Chaudhuri at UConn has been awarded the Drug Delivery to the Lungs 2023 Career Development Grant. The grant provides critical support to young researchers in the field of respiratory science, facilitating both the advancement of respiratory drug delivery technologies and the growth of scientists’ careers. The research work will be showcased at the renowned Drug Delivery to the Lungs 2024 conference in Scotland, a premier event and industry exhibition entirely dedicated to pulmonary and nasal drug delivery.