PostDoc And Student Spotlight

Shardool Jain

Shardool Jain Receives Two Prestigious Awards at the 2010 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) National Meeting

Shardool Jain, a doctoral candidate in Pharmaceutical Science with specialization in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, received two awards at the 2010 AAPS National meeting held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shardool received the Graduate Symposium Award in Biotechnology and the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists Student Scholarship.
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Nathaniel Hodgson
and Girish Chopda

Nate Hodgson and Girish Chopda won the Outstanding Student Research Awards at the 2010 Northeastern University Research Expo

Nate Hodgson is a doctoral student working under Professor Richard Deth. Nate’s project is titled “EAAT3-Mediated Cysteine Uptake in Human Neuroblastoma Cells is PI3 Kinase-Dependent”.

Girish R Chopda is a doctoral student working under Professor Carol Paronis. Girish's project is titled “Effects of CB1 Cannabinoid Agonists in Rats”
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Christina Kriegel

Christina Kriegel Receives the 2009 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist’s Postdoctoral Fellow Award

Christina Kriegel, a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Mansoor Amiji’s group received the 2009 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist’s (AAPS) Postdoctoral Fellow Award. The Award is sponsored by FMC Corporation. Christina’s research focuses on “Oral Gene Silencing of TNF-alpha using a Nanoparticles-in-Microsphere Delivery System in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Model”.
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Thomas Koperniak

Tom Koperniak Receives the 2009 American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Doctoral Fellowship
Thomas Koperniak is a PhD candidate working under Profesor Ralph Loring. The title of his thesis is “The Role of Ric-3 and Other Chaperone Factors in Cell-Dependent Expression of Alpha-7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors”.
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Lara Jabr-Milane

Lara Jabr-Milane wins the 2009 Boston Area International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Poster Competition
Lara Jabr-Milane is a PhD candidate working under the direction of Professor Mansoor Amiji. While in Dr. Amiji’s laboratory Lara participated in the NCI/NSF funded pre-doctoral IGERT Nanomedicine fellowship program. Lara’s thesis project is titled “Tumor Hypoxia, the Warburg Effect, and Multi-drug Resistance: Modulation of Hypoxia Induced Multi-drug Resistance Using EGFR Targeted Polymer Blend Nanocarriers for Combination Paclitaxel/Lonidamine Therapy”
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Christina Muratore

Christina Muratore receives the 2009 John and Evelyn Neumeyer’s Research Achievement Award
Christina is a doctoral student working under Professor Richard Deth on a thesis project entitled “Alternative Splicing of Methionine Synthase as a Biomarker for Oxidative Stress in Aging and Neurological Disorders”
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