News

  • (October 5, 2024) Check out our two recent publications highlighting the realtime imaging based evaluation for in situ forming implants in JCR and the freezing process impact on T-cell cryopreservation in IJP with free access till early November.
  • (September 27, 2024) Congratulations Sheyda on receiving the AAPS Nanotechnology Community 3MT Competition Best Presentation award! We also learned that Mittal’s CRS poster presentation received the Best Poster Presentation Award! Congratulations!
  • (July 8, 2024) Congratulations Mittal for receiving the 2024 Young Scientist Travel Grants to attend the Controlled Release Society annual conference in Bologna, Italy, as one of 4 awardees in US!
  • (May 22, 2024) Congratulations Zixuan for receiving the CPPR Steve Nail Emerging Researcher Award!
  • (October 22, 2023) Congratulations Sheyda for receiving the Best Abstract Award at the AAPS PharmSci 360 in 2023! Congratulations Mittal for her poster being featured for Special Poster Collection Presentation at the 2023 AAPS meeting!
  • (August 30, 2023) Check out UConn Today reporting Dr. Lu’s accomplishments as the new AAPS Fellow!
  • (August 18, 2023) Congratulations Dr. Lu for being elected as AAPS Fellow,  as one of eight new Fellows elevated from the globe in 2023 recognizing leaderships in the Pharmaceutical field!
  • (August 17, 2023) Check out our new review article in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews about siRNA therapeutics with free download till October 6, 2023
  • (July 26, 2023) Congratulations Xinhao for the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2023 Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting!
  • (March 21, 2023) Congratulations! Dr. Xiuling Lu Named 2023 Faculty Research Advising Award Recipient!
  • (December 2, 2022) Congratulations Xinhao for receiving the Student Research Poster Award 1st place at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) Annual Conference from Nov 29, 2022-Dec 1, 2022!
  • (September 6, 2022) Our work on tumor imaging was highlighted as the cover article in Advanced Therapeutics and UConn Today News!
  • (August 23, 2022) Welcome Sheyda Ranjbar and Mittal Darji for joining the Lu Lab!
  • (May 2, 2022) Congratulations to Dr. Xiuling Lu for her promotion to Professor!
  • (April 5, 2022) Congratulations to Dr. Wei-Chung Luo for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! Check some photos here!
  • (Nov 20, 2021) Congratulations to Derek for the new paper published in Advanced NanoBiomed Research with open access!
  • (Nov 11, 2021) Congratulations to Wei-Chung for the new paper on nanoparticle freeze drying published in European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics!
  • (Oct 8, 2021) Welcome Dr. Faisal Ibrahim for joining the Lu Lab!
  • (Aug 2, 2021) Welcome Dr. Pallabita Chowdhury for joining the Lu Lab!
  • (May 13, 2021) Congratulations to Wei-Chung Luo for winning the Gerald J. Jackson Memorial Fellowship Award!
  • (April 30, 2021) Check out our recent paper in Journal of Chromatography B!
  • (April 14, 2021) Congratulations to Dr. André O’Reilly Beringhs for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! Check some photos here!
  • (March 14, 2021) Our latest review on nanoparticle-antibody conjugates in immunoassays and tumor imaging can be viewed in the AAPS Journal!
  • (March 5, 2021) Our new publication about PFOB nanocapsules for CT imaging can be found in AAPS PharmSci Tech!
  • (January 10, 2021) Check out our latest publication in AAPS PharmSci Tech about the impact of membranes on in vitro release assessment!
  • (November 18, 2020) Our new paper in Journal of Controlled Release reported the research findings in the past few years on interactions between nanoparticles and tumor surface for tumor-specific delivery to peritoneal metastasis. Free access is available till December 31, 2020. 
  • (October 11, 2020) Our recent publication on in vitro release assessment of tobramycin ophthalmic ointment can be accessed for free till Nov. 27, 2020.
  • (October 6, 2020) Congratulations André Beringhs for winning the 2020 IPEC Graduate Student Award!
  • (August 19, 2020) The exciting collaborative work with the Physician Scientist Dr. Tulio Valdez at Stanford University has been published in Scientific Report! Free to download.
  • (August 13, 2020) Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hargrove for a successful doctoral dissertation defense!
  • (May 22, 2020) Congratulations to André Beringhs for receiving the prestigious Karl A. Herzog Fellowship!
  • (April 28, 2020) Check out our most recent publication in Nature Cell Biology! Glad to see that our proprietary nanoparticles containing doxorubicin exhibited the best effectiveness in inhibiting leukemic stem cells!
  • (October 30, 2019) Check out our most recent publication in International Journal of Pharmaceutics!
  • (September 19, 2019) Congratulations to Wei-Chung Luo for receiving the Dr. Thomas Jennings Award at the 2019
    International Society Lyophilization-Freeze Drying East Coast Chapter Meeting!
  • (May 29, 2019) Check out our most recent publication in Nanotheranostics on overcoming hypoxia-induced chemoresistance with open access!
  • (May 16, 2019) Our new publication has been featured at UConn Today: Research Holds Promise for Improved Treatment of Ovarian Cancer !
  • (April 2, 2019) Congratulations Sterling Glass for receiving the General Travel Award to attend the ASPET Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2019 in Orlando, FL! 
  • (April 2, 2019) Congratulations to Sterling Glass for receiving 2019 John B. Morris Fellowship in the area of Pharmacology and Toxicology!
  • (March 31, 2019) Congratulations to André Beringhs for receiving 2019 Gerald J. Jackson Memorial Fellowship!
  • (March 31, 2019) See UConn Today on Dr.Lu’s service award!
  • Dr. Lu has been listed as Featured Faculty at UConn Research website
  • (March 25, 2019) Congratulations on the new publication in the upcoming issue of Particle & Particle Systems Characterization and our design was selected to be featured on the cover!
  • (February 28, 2019) Congratulations to Dr. Xiuling Lu for receiving the 2019 Dean Robert L. McCarthy Faculty Service Award!
  • (February 18, 2019) Congratulations to Dr. Laura Gonzalez-Fajardo for a successful doctoral dissertation defense! Check some photos here!
  • (November 12, 2018) Congratulations to André Beringhs for receiving the Best Abstract Award and the Travelship Award sponsored by AstraZeneca at 2018 AAPS annual meeting!
  • (September 20, 2018) Congratulations on another new publication in AAPS PharmSciTech! Check our publications here!
  • (July 26, 2018) Congratulations on the new publication in Pharmaceutical Research! Check our publications here!