The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education (NIPTE) named Dr. Raman Bahal of University of Connecticut as this year’s Rising Star. The Rising Star Scholarship is awarded to early career investigators for outstanding scientific achievements in pharmaceutical science and technology. Dr. Bahal joins another CPPR faculty member, Dr. Tony Zhou of Purdue University, in the expanding group of CPPR faculty winners of this distinguished award.
Professor Qi “Tony” Zhou of Purdue University is this year’s AAPS Emerging Leader for having made a significant impact through the pharmaceutical sciences that promote public health early in his career. SPOTLIGHT: 2021 Emerging Leader Award (informz.net).
The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) has named Dr.Raj Sury of University of Minnesota as this year’s Michael J. Pikal Distinguished Scholar. See more at This is a particularly meaningful award that is named for former CPPR Faculty and Leader, Michael J. Pikal. Dr. Sury joins previous CPPR Faculty who received this award, Robin Bogner and Elizabeth Topp. Read more at Congratulations to Dr. Raj Suryanarayanan (Sury), PhD — 2021 Michael J. Pikal NIPTE Distinguished Scholar in Pharmaceutical Processing – The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education, Inc..
Three of the 11 finalists in UConn’s 3-minute thesis competition were graduate students in Pharmaceutics Program. This year’s winner, Shipra Malik, is a CPPR student from Dr. Raman Bahal’s lab. Click on https://grad.uconn.edu/2021/08/17/uconns-3mt-winners-2021/ to see Shipra’s winning video. This is the second time a CPPR student has won the UConn 3MT competition. In 2019, Koyel Sen of Bodhi Chaudhuri’s lab was the topper.
DanaMoseson and her advisor, Lynne Taylor, from PurdueUniversity published their findings on the effect of residual crystallinity on the loss of the solubility advantage of ASDs in a paper in European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Read more at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejps.2020.105276
@ShreyaKulkarni, along with her advisor, @RobinBogner from @UConnPharmacy, and @RajSury from @University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and CPPR mentors, @SajalPatel and @Joseph Rinella published their findings on what causes long reconstitution times in high concentration proteins. Read more at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2021.05.005
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CPPR student, Monika Lavan, along with her mentor Greg Knipp and fellow CPPR faculty, Stephen Byrn of Purdue University and CPPR industrial mentor, Scott Hostetler, published their findings on the pharmacokinetics of a pediatric mini-tablet formulation of lapatinib evaluated in the mini-pig model. See https://doi.org/10.1208/s12249-020-01891-x to read more.
@Bruna Minatovicz (under the supervision of her doctoral mentor, @Bodhi Chaudhuri, from @UConnPharmacy) published their findings on the factors that influence the stability of a model enzyme during bulk freezing. Fill volume, storage placement, and cooling rate were shown to be significant factors. See more at https://doi.org/10.1208/s12249-021-02034-6 in @AAPSPharmSciTech.
Eighty-eight scientists from 9 companies and 3 universities met virtually on May 24 and 25 to share findings on completed projects, updates on current research and proposals on new research. Final project reports were in the areas of 3D printing, tabletability, oral peptide delivery, and modeling of tablet disintegration and dissolution. Project updates were presented by poster on lyophilized formulations, continuous manufacturing, modeling of fluid bed drying, nanoparticle freeze-drying, and imaging of lyophilized products. Proposed areas of research included binder-excipient interactions, predicting oral absorption, monitoring protein structural changes, excipient impact on protein formulations.
CPPR student, Shipra Malik’s abstract was selected for an oral presentation and an award for the prestigious “2021 RNA Institute Mini-Symposium series” at University at Albany, SUNY.
