2026. 11. 04 Graduate Student Afrida Hoque receives the Steven Neil Emerging Researcher Award in the 2026 fall CPPR meeting held at Purdue University.

2026. 10. 29 Graduate Student Sushil Joshi won AAiPS Graduate Research Award 2026.

2026. 07. 24 Our recent paper investigating the drying stability and permeability advantages of amorphous drug nanoparticles is published in AAPS Open special issue “Innovations in Enabling Formulations and Characterization of Small Molecules for Drug Development” https://doi.org/10.1186/s41120-026-00185-z

2026. 07. 20 Graduate Student Ajay Lale won the inaugural NIPTE Drug Design Competition.

2026. 07. 04 Our recent paper investigating the impact of stabilizers on the solution stability of amorphous drug nanoparticles is published in Pharmaceutical Research special issue “Celebrating NIPTE’s 20 Years of Excellence” https://doi.org/10.1007/s11095-026-04137-w

2026. 04. 29 Dr. Na Li receives her Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor from the Board of Trustees. 

2026. 04. 22 Dr. Na Li receives the 2026 UConn AAUP Faquir Jain Early Career Research Excellence Award.

2026. 03. 30 Graduate student Sushil Joshi won 1st place in Academic Research Award presentations at the AAPS NERDG annual meeting. 

2026. 02. 27 Graduate student Saurav Adhikari receives the 2026 Gerald J. Jackson Memorial Award from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UConn. 

2025. 12. 08 Graduate Student Da Hye Yang successfully defended her dissertation and is now officially Dr. Yang. She will join Pfizer at Groton in Jan 2026.