Robert Price was awarded the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Fellowship for the period of 2012-2014.
Ryan Robinson was awarded first place at a national
NDConnect undergraduate nano science and nano engineering competition at the University of Notre Dame. His achievements were published in the Deseret News.
Giridhar Thiagarjan and Adam Gormley were awarded first and second place respectively for their posters at the Nano Utah Conference 2011.
Heather Herd and Adam Gormley were awarded 2nd and 3rd place respectively for their poster awards at Nano D.D.S. 2011.
Dr. Ghandehari was awarded Fellowship status in American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) in 2011.
Robert Price, Dallin Hubbard and Azadeh Poursaid were awarded the Nanotechnology Training Program Fellowship during the period of 2010-2011.
Shraddha Sadekar and Giridhar Thiagarajan were awarded the Research Fellowship from the University of Utah Graduate School in 2011.
Debra Goldberg was awarded first prize for her podium presentation at
The Globalization of Pharmaceutics Education Network conference
in 2010.
Three students from Ghandehari lab won poster awards at nanoUtah 2010, Utah's 6th annual statewide nanotechnology conference. First, second and third prizes in the Nanomedicine Category, went to Giridhar Thiagarajan, Shraddha Sadekar, and Adam Gormley respectively.
Heather Herd, PhD Graduate Student, Bioengineering, has recently been awarded two fellowships. The Institute of International Education has awarded Heather a Whitaker International Fellowship, which allows her to study at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany, as a Visiting Scholar in Dr. Claus Michael-Lehr's laboratory. Following her fellowship in Germany, Heather will return to the Ghandehari lab to begin a Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) titled Multimodal silica nanoparticles for the assessment of the role of tumor-associated macrophages in breast carcinoma and therapy. Herd will receive three years of funding from the DOD to continue her research in this area.
Adam Gormley, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, received a Pre-doctoral fellowship from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) titled Targeted Prostate Tumor Ablation Using Engineering Gold Nanorods. Gormley will receive three years of funding from the DOD to continue his research in this area.
Giridhar Thiagarajan and Jordan Frandsen win 2nd and 3rd place respectively at the nanoUtah 2009 Conference Poster Session. Thiagarajan’s 2nd place winning poster was titled PAMAM-Camptothecin Conjugate Inhibits Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis in Colorectal Carcinoma Cells. Frandsen’s 3rd place winning poster was titled Silk-elastinlike Protein Polymers Improve the Efficacy of Gene Therapy of Head and Neck Tumors. Please see our Photo Gallery for photos from the award session.