Category: PhD


Recent PhD Graduate Dr. Paridhi Gupta Receives the Trainee Award at the American Conference on Pharmacometrics

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Congratulations to our recent Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate, Dr. Paridhi Gupta! She was one of three recipients of the Trainee Award at the American Conference on Pharmacometrics 2025, held October 18–21 in Colorado, USA. Dr. Gupta earned this honor for her internship work at Johnson & Johnson, where she collaborated with Dr. Vivaswath S. Ayyar on a… Read More

Kristiana Avad Wins NIH Loan Payment Award for Consecutive Year

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Kristiana Avad, PharmD, a graduate student in Dr. Kirk Hevener’s lab, for being awarded the prestigious Research in Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health Loan Repayment (LRP) award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)! The LRP program is designed to help retain highly qualified healthcare professionals in research. The program offers… Read More

Ishita Kathuria Awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

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Congratulations to Ishita Kathuria, a graduate student in Dr. Bhupesh Singla’s lab, on being awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship! This fellowship aims to enhance integrated research and clinical training for promising students enrolled in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree programs who aspire to careers as scientists, physician-scientists, clinician-scientists, or related fields focused… Read More

Ishita Kathuria Wins 3-Minute Thesis Challenge

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An entire thesis in just three minutes? A huge round of applause goes to Pharmaceutical Sciences third-year student Ishita Kathuria, who took on the challenge and emerged the winner of the UT Health Science Center 3 Minute Thesis competition on October 18! Contestants comprised graduate students from across the UT Health Science Center. Congrats also… Read More

Adeleye, Graduate Student, Receives Alma Hal Reagan Fellowship for Second Year in A Row

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Kelli Adeleye, a 5th-year graduate student in Dr. Wei Li’s lab, was awarded the Alma Hal Reagan Fellowship for the second year in a row! With the award money, Adeleye plans to advance her research on SP-1-39, a promising colchicine-binding site inhibitor. This funding will support further studies to assess its efficacy in drug-resistant and… Read More

Graduate Stuent Yasmen Receives Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience!

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Graduate student Nelufar Yasmen receives Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience! The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) presents the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) to recognize outstanding young scientists and support their participation in the SfN annual meeting. This award is designed to help trainees advance their careers by allowing them to present… Read More

Dr. Christopher McCurdy Awarded the Duane D. Miller Lectureship

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We were grateful to have heard the important research of Dr. Christopher McCurdy, winner of the Duane D. Miller Lectureship, on Monday, June 3rd. McCurdy delivered a lecture titled “Sigma Receptor Ligands from Conception to the Clinic: Illumination of an Enigma.” Dr. McCurdy is a professor and holds The Frank A. Duckworth Eminent Scholar Chair… Read More

Kelli Adeleye Receives Duane D. Miller Award in Drug Discovery

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Congratulations to Kelli Adeleye, a graduate student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, who received the Duane D. Miller Award in Drug Discovery on Monday for her significant research contributions to advancing health as a graduate student at the College. Adeleye’s research focuses on characterizing the biological activity of novel colchicine-binding site inhibitors. Colchicine-binding site… Read More

Associate Professor Dr. Udai Singh and Graduate Students Receive the 2024 AAI Laboratory Travel Grant to Present Research at AAI Annual Meeting

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Associate Professor Dr. Udai Singh from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences has been awarded the 2024 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Laboratory Travel Grant. The grant will support Dr. Singh and his team’s attendance at the AAI Annual Meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2024TM in Chicago, IL, from May 3-7, 2024. At the AAI Annual Meeting, Dr. Singh and… Read More

Hyunseo Park Receives Presidential Trainee Award for Innovative Research on Autoimmune Disease Treatment

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Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate student, Hyunseo Park, was recently awarded the Presidential Trainee Award at the ASCPT Annual Meeting held on March 27-29 in Colorado Springs. This prestigious award is given to scholars with the top-scoring abstracts, as identified by the ASCPT Scientific Programming Committee. During the Presidential Trainee Showcase on March 27, attendees and ASCPT… Read More