November 2025

• Gupta Lab attends 2025 AAPS PharmSci Conference at San Antonio, Texas. Congratulation to Dr Gupta for being honored as the 2025 AAPS Fellow. Graduate students Zia Masum, Sravani Ravula, Suman Choudhary, Sanjana Durve and Reshma Sarkar presented their posters. Post Doc Dr Naveen Rajana presented his work titled "Development and Evaluation of Ribociclib-Loaded Folic Acid conjugated Chitosan-Polycaprolactone Nanoparticles for the management of Glioblastoma" at the 2025 AAPS Special poster collection.

October 2025

• The award season continues for Gupta Lab!. Dr. Vivek Gupta received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, recognizing his outstanding contributions to pharmaceutical sciences and mentorship excellence. Visit the gallery for highlights from the event.

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​​September 2025

• Gupta lab attends workshop for inhalation products and pulmonary drug delivery at Purdue university, Indianna. Graduate students Meghana Mokashi, Suman Choudhary and Mural Quadros were selected to share their research through poster presentations. Mural Quadros received both the Best Poster Award and the Best 3-Minute Thesis Award. Visit the gallery for highlights from the event.

August 2025

• Congratulations to Dr Gupta for being named 2025 AAPS Fellow for his pioneering work in inhalable therapeutics, nano medicine, and drug repurposing. He will be inducted at PharmSci 360 in San Antonio!

July 2025

• ​Congratulations to Dr Dnyandev Gadhave for publishing his research article titled " A Microemulsion for Oral Delivery of Nintedanib – QbD-Enabled Formulation Development, In-Vitro Characterization & In-Vivo Pharmacokinetic Assessment​" Check out the publication page for more information.

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June 2025

• Gupta lab attends International Society for Aerosol in Medicine (ISAM) 2025 in Washington DC. Graduate students Mural Quadros and Meghana Mokashi delivered a flash talk and presented posters on inhalable nanoparticles for respiratory cancers. Congratulations to Meghana Mokashi for being awarded best poster presenter! Check out the gallery for some glimpses.
• Congratulations to Zia Masum for publishing his reserach article, " Novel Polymorphic Patterns for Elacestrant Dihydrochloride". Check out the publication page for more information.​

April 2025

• Gupta lab celebrates Dr Mimansa Goyal's graduation! check out the gallery page.
• Gupta lab celebrates Zia's birthday!
• Congratulations to Mural Quadros for publishing her first research article, " An Inhaled Nanoemulsion Encapsulating a Herbal Drug for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Treatment​". Check out the publication page for more information!​
• Congratulations to Dr Dnyandev Gadhave for publishing his research article titled " Quality by design enabled development & in-vitro assessment of a Nanoemulgel formulation for Nose-to-Brain delivery of Nintedanib for glioblastoma multiforme treatment​. Check out the publication page for more information!​
• Gupta lab attends AAPS NERDG in Connecticut. Meghana Mokashi was awarded for the short topic presentation, while Zia Masum was selected for the academic research award presentation. Graduate students Mural Quadros, Sravani Ravula, Sanjana Dhurve, and Suman Choudhary shared their research posters. Check out the gallery for more images!
• Gupta lab attends student research conference organized by St John's University. Check out the gallery for some podium glimpses!

December 2024

• Gupta Lab celebrated Christmas with a potluck, a fun game of Mafia, and Dr. Gupta’s delicious cooking! Check out the gallery for some glimpses!
• ​Congratulations to Dr Wang for publishing her 6th first author research article titled "Transferrin-conjugated polymeric nanoparticles for receptor-mediated delivery of resveratrol-cyclodextrin complex in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells".  Check out the publication page for more information!​
• Congratulations to Dr Kulkarni for publishing his research article titled " Development and In‑Vitro Evaluation of Doxorubicin‑Loaded Methacrylate Gelatin (GelMa)‑Acrylamide Hydrogels for the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma​". Check out the publication page for more information!​
• Gupta lab celebrates Meghana Mokashi's birthday with cake and smiles! Check out the gallery 

October 2024

• ​Gupta lab attends AAPS Salt Lake City, 2024. Check out the gallery to catch some professional and happy faces!
• Graduate students Meghana Mokashi, Mural Quadros, Sravani Reddy, Sanjana Durve, Suman Choudhary presented their research posters.
• Congratulations to Sanjana Durve for presenting her poster titled "A Nano-Emulsion Based Formulation of Sorafenib for Oral Bioavailability Enhancement and Repurposing against Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer" at the AAPS Special Poster Collection.

September 2024

• Congratulations to Mimansa Goyal for successfully defending her dissertation! Dr. Goyal has a nice ring to it! Check out the gallery page for a peek into the celebration.
• Congratulations to Dr Chauhan for publishing this research article titled "Continuously producible aztreonam-loaded inhalable lipid nanoparticles for cystic fibrosis-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections – Development and in-vitro characterization" Check out the publication page for more information!

May 2024

• Congratulations to Dr Chauhan for publishing a part of his PhD thesis titled " Chitosan/bovine serum albumin layer-by-layer assembled particles for non-invasive inhaled drug delivery to the lungs" Check out the publication page for more information!

April 2024

• Congratulations to Dr Gadhave for publishing his second research article titled "Mucoadhesive chitosan-poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles for intranasal delivery of quetiapine–Development & characterization in physiologically relevant 3D tissue models". Check out the publication page for more details!!.
• Gupta lab attends St Johns University's Student Research Conference! Mimansa Goyal was awarded first position in oral presentation and also for best  venture and innovation project! Lyndsay Mogland was awarded "Most commerically promising research" (4th Place). Hurray! Many more awards to come! Check out gallery for some glimpses!

March 2024

• Congratulations to Lucy for publishing her fifth PhD research article titled " Inhaled nintedanib nanoparticles for enhanced efficacy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treatment–Evidence in disease-relevant in-vitro models". Check out the publication page for more details!!.
• Gupta Lab visits Connecticut to attend AAPS NERDG annual Conference where graduate students; Mural and Sravani presented their research. Mural Quadros was awarded Academic Research Award (2nd Place) for her research titled " Nanoencapsulated Osimertinib for treatment of malignant Pleural Mesothelioma". Check out gallery for some glimpses!

February 2024

• Congratulations to our Post Doc Carol for publishing her review titled "Excipients for Novel Inhaled Dosage Forms: An Overview" Check out the publication page for more details!!

December 2023

• Congratulations to Lucy for publishing her first PhD research article titled " Development and characterization of inhaled nintedanib-loaded PLGA nanoparticles using scalable high-pressure homogenization technique" Check out the publication page for more details!!

October 2023

• Gupta lab attends AAPS at Orlando, Florida!! Mimansa Goyal was awarded best abstract at AAPS for her poster titled "Exploring the potential of inhaled nano therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma​ " while graduate students; Mural, Meghana, Akanksha and post doc researcher Dnyandev presented their posters. Check out images from the day in the gallery!!

July 2023

• Congratulations to Mimansa for publishing her first PhD research article titled "Poly vinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) based inhaled delivery carriers for olaparib for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment. Check out the publication page for more details! Many more to go!!

March 2023

• Congratulations to ​Vineela for publishing her research article titled "Development and Characterization of Folic Acid-Conjugated Amodiaquine-Loaded Nanoparticles–Efficacy in Cancer Treatment". Check out the publication page for more details!
• Congratulations to Gautam Chauhan for publishing his research article titled" Scalable Production and In Vitro Efficacy of Inhaled Erlotinib Nanoemulsion for Enhanced Efficacy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)". Check out the publication page for more details!
• Congratulations to Xuechun Wang for publishing her research article titled " Surface Modified Inhaled Microparticle-Encapsulated Celastrol for Enhanced Efficacy in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma". Check out the publication page for more details!

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February 2023

• ​Congratulations to Xuechun (Lucy) Wang for successfully defending her PhD thesis titled "Design of inhalable nintedanib PLGA nanoparticles using high-pressure homogenization for treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ". Check out some images from the day in the gallery!
• Congratulations to Gautam Chauhan for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled "Layer-by-layer assembled particles for non-invasive inhaled therapeutic delivery to the lungs". Best wishes for all his future endeavors!!

September 2022

• ​Congratulations to ​Vineela for publishing her research article titled " Exploring Amodiaquine’s Repurposing Potential in Breast Cancer Treatment – Assessment of In-vitro Efficacy & Mechanism of Action" in International Journal of Molecular Sciences​. Check out the publication page for more details.

August 2022

• ​Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni for publishing her research article titled " Repurposing clofazimine for malignant pleural mesothelioma treatment- In vitro assessment of efficacy and mechanism of action" in Life Sciences. Check out the publication page for more details.

June 2022

• Congratulations to Nishant Kulkarni for publishing his paper "Repurposing therapeutics for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM)" in Life Sciences. Check out the publication page for more details.

​December 2021

• Congratulations to Nishant Kulkarni who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Re-inventing Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Therapeutics". Best wishes for all his future endeavors!!

September 2021

• Congratulations to Gautam Chauhan for being the 1st runner up at Jarowski Symposium for his poster "Continuous Production of Antibiotic Formulation for Treatment of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa infection in Cystic Fibrosis". Way to go GC!!

​August 2021

• Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni who's paper on Development and characterization of inhalable transferrin functionalized amodiaquine nanoparticles for non-small scale lung cancer (NSCLC) got published in International Journal of Pharmaceutics. Check out the publication page for more details.

July 2021

• Congratulations to Snehal Shukla who's paper on Bioinspired Particle Engineering for Non-invasive Inhaled Delivery to the Lungs got published in Material Sciences and Engineering C. Check out the publication page for more details.

June 2021

• Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Vivek Gupta on being awarded a tenure, a great milestone in his career. 

March 2021

• Snehal Shukla successfully defends her PhD dissertation on "Particle Shape Engineering for Improved Drug Delivery to Deep Lungs by Non-invasive Route". Congratulations Dr. Snehal Shukla. Hakuna Matata!!
• Eager for Snehal Shukla's Ph.D. Defence on March 12, 2021 and wishing her all the very best.

February 2021

• Welcome Dr. Nikesh Gupta as the postdoctoral research scholar to our lab.

January 2021

• Congratulations to Nishant Kulkarni who's paper on Nano-synergistic combination of Erlotinib and Quinacrine for non-small scale lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics - Evaluation in biologically relevant in-vitro models got published in Material Sciences and Engineering C. Check out the publication page for more details.

December 2020

• Vineela Parvathaneni successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Exploring efficacy of an anti-malarial nanomedicine in non-small scale lung cancer treatment". Congratulations Dr. Vineela Parvathaneni. Best wishes for the future.

November 2020

• Congratulations to Gautam Chauhan who's magazine article on Continuous Manufacturing of Lipid-Based Delivery Systems Using Melt Extrusion published in Pharmafocusasia. Check out the publication page for more details.
• Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni who's paper on Bypassing P-glycoprotein mediated efflux of afatinib by cyclodextrin complexation – Evaluation of intestinal absorption and anti-cancer activity got published in Journal of Molecular Liquids. Check out the publication page for more details. ​
• Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni for winning AAiPS Annual student research award 2020 for Development and Evaluation of Transferrin Conjugated Amodiaquine Nanoparticles -Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Targeted Therapy. ​
• Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni who's paper on Therapeutic potential of inhalable medications to combat coronavirus disease-2019 got published in Therapeutic Delivery. Check out the publication page for more details. 

October 2020

• Congratulations to Sruthi Sarvepalli elected as the Vice Chair for AAPS student Chapter 2020-21, St. John's University.

August 2020

• Congratulations to Nishant Kulkarni who's paper on Repurposing Quinacrine for Treatment of Malignant Mesothelioma – In-vitro Therapeutic and Mechanistic Evaluation got published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Check out the publication page for more details.
• Congratulations to Vineela Parvatheneni who's paper on Utilizing drug repurposing against COVID-19 - Efficacy, limitations, and challenges got published in LIfe Sciences. Check out the publication page for more details.

July 2020

• Congratulations to Snehal Shukla who's paper on Enhanced Stability, Permeation and Anti-Cancer Efficacy of Celastrol-β‐Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complex got published in Journal of Molecular Liquids. Check out the publication page for more details.
•  Congratulations to Nishant Kulkarni for receiving the best Abstract award for AAPS 2020 PHARMSCI 360.
• Congratulations to Xuechun (Lucy) Wang who's paper on Inhalable Resveratrol-Cyclodextrin loaded nanoparticles for enhanced efficacy against Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) got published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Check out the publication page for more details.

​June 2020

• Our lab reopens after a long break amidst COVID-19 situation.
• Congratulations to Vineela Parvathaneni who has been awarded a Doctoral Fellowship from College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at St. John's University for the year 2020-2021.

                                           
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