2024-2025
Amany Alowaisi
Best Poster Award, 2024 PSET Research Retreat, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa. Title: Partial deletion of PHB1 in hepatocytes leads to constitutive mTORC1 activation, fatty liver disease and insulin resistance in mice
Hesham R M Abdelsamad
Invited to the GPEN Conference in Denmark to give a podium presentation “Exploring biosimilar formulations in the US market” in Copenhagen, Denmark - July 2024
PGSRM fundraising committee head - June 2024
Invited by Dr. Otilia M. Koo, Ph.D., FAAPS, Portfolio Vice President, Novo Nordisk to give a 10-minute presentation on the poster entitled Challenges with Removal and Addition of Polysorbates From/To Formulations of Monoclonal Antibodies at AAPS PharmSci360 in Salt Lake City - October 2024
GPSG Travel Grant to attend and present at the AAPS PharmSci 360 conference in Salt Lake City - October 2024
Engaging Across Cultures – Professional Development Program - November 2024
Apurva Dusane
Best Abstract Award, AAPS PharmSci 360, Salt Lake City - October 2024
Member, Scientific Publication and Registration Team for PGSRM - June 2024
President, AAPS student chapter at University of Iowa (2024-25)
Member engagement manager at AAPS Nanotechnology community (2024-25)
Leqi (Margaret) Fan
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, fall 2024
Internship, Zoetis, Inc., summer 2024
Graduate Student Senate Travel Grant
GPSG Travel Grant
Siddhanth Hejmady
Poster Award, AAPS 2024 PHARMSCI 360, "A Comparative Sudy of Agitation-Induced Aggregation of Monoclonal Antibodies via Horizontal Shaking and Orbital Shaking"
Eman Kamel
Internship, AstraZeneca, early respiratory and immunology department, Gaithersburg, MD
Antonia Koopmeiners
Iowa Recruitment Fellowship
Keith Guillory Pharmaceutics Graduate Fellowship, fall 2024
Emese Kovacs
Selected for the Dare to Discover Banner Campaign 2025, Downtown Iowa City
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship, spring 2025
Esraa Mohamed
CounterACT Trainee Travel Support (June 2024) to attend and present a poster at the 17th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium, Salt Lake City
Best Poster Presentation award, Central States and Midwest Regional Chapters Society of Toxicology meeting (October 2024)
Selected for the Dare to Discover Banner Campaign 2025, Downtown Iowa City
Elham Taherian
Vijay Kumar Summer Fellowship, summer 2024
2023-2024
Hesham Abdelsamad
GSS Travel Grant ($750) to attend and present at the AAPS PharmSci 360 in Orlando - October 2023
Communication Chair at the AAPS student chapter - October 2023
Joseph Correa
Iowa Recruitment Fellowship
Terrence and Donna Dahl Pharmaceutics Fellowship, Fall 2023
Flanagan-Guillory-Matheson-Wurster Fellowship, Spring 2024
Alyssa Daniel
Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Travel Award
GSS Travel Award
GSPG Travel Award
Poster presentation at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City titled A Mouse Model of Organophosphate Exposure, Behavioral, and Epigenetic Outcomes: Investigations Into the Sub-Chronic Neurotoxicity of Chlorpyrifos.
Apurva Dusane
Mani V. Subramanian Outstanding Student Poster award, Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Qais Farjo Memorial Travel Grant issued by 'The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)' for attending ARVO 2024 conference
Leqi (Margaret) Fan
Vijay Kumar Summer Fellowship
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Graduate College Presentation Travel Funds
Graduate & Professional Student Government (GPSG) Travel Grant
Poster Presentation, AAPS PharmSci 360, Orlando, FL.
Internship, Zoetis Inc.
Wesam Ismail
PhRMA Foundation, 2024 Predoctoral Fellowship in Value Assessment and Health Outcomes Research
https://www.phrmafoundation.org/grants-fellowships/award-recipients/wesam-ismail/
Sanika Jadhav
Co-chair, PGSRM-2024 (Pharmaceutics Graduate Students Research Meeting), UIowa
GPSG, UI Travel Award ($400) for AAPS, Orlando, FL
Best Poster in Pharmaceutics, Third Annual PSET Retreat, UI College of Pharmacy
Marketing Award for UI-JPEC Startup Games Competition
UI “Prof. Vijay Kumar Rao” Summer Fellowship
Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year, UI College of Pharmacy
Presented research at conferences: A. AAPS Pharm Sci 360 2023, Orlando, FL B. Prof. David Grant Symposium 2023, Minneapolis, MN C. PGSRM 2023, West Lafayette, IN
Emese Kovacs
Invited presentation: DNA methylation changes in bipolar disorder and suicide attempt.
Invited Talk at: Psychology Symposium at the 62md Hungarian Congress; November 2023; Cleveland, OH
Second Place for Best Poster Presentation at the Annual Retreat for Hawk-IDDRC in June 2023
Best Publication Award, PSET in May 2023
Named to the Search Committee for the Vice President of Research in April 2024
Esraa Mohamed
CounterACT Trainee Travel Support to attend the 17th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah
Neha Paranjape
Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Travel Support, March 2024
Poster presentation: Astrocyte mitochondria are sensitive targets of PCB52 and its human-relevant metabolites
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2024
Gordon Research Conference Travel Award, August 2023
Invited platform presentations: Gordon Research Conference, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity; Gordon Research Seminar, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity
Poster presentations: Gordon Research Conference; Gordon Research Seminar, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity
UI-JPEC IdeaPitch Competition - Fourth Place, Fall 2023
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2023
Jay Phruttiwanichakun
Dare to Discover Banner, Spring 2024
The Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Biotechnology
Poster Presentation at 2023 Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium: NanoDDS (Cambridge, MA)
Yan Xu
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
3-Minute Thesis Finalist
2022-2023
Hesham Abdelsalam
College of Pharmacy Fellowship - October 2022
Amany Alowaisi
2023 Endocrinology & Metabolism section Research Recognition Award, American Physiological Society (in Feb 2023)
Oral Presentation: Endocrinology and Metabolism, American Physiology Summit, April 2023, Long Beach CA
Oral Presentation: FOEDRC Diabetes Research Day, April 2023, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Poster Presentation: College of Pharmacy Retreat, in Fall 2022
Valerie Cota
Zada Cooper Leadership Award
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Olajide Fadare
Dare to Discover Banner, Spring 2023
Graduate College Post Comprehensive Award
Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2023
Leqi (Margaret) Fan
Poster Presentation, AAPS PharmSci #60, Boston, MA
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Moana Hala'ufia
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship
NINDS Diversity Supplement Trainee
Ran Huo
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, Summer 2023
Wesam Ismail
Poster Presentation, APhA Conference, Spring 2023
Emese Kovacs
Graduate Certificate, College Teaching, University of Iowa
Poster Presentation, "Epigenetic markers of lithium use in bipolar disorder at Society of Biological Psychiatry" (SOBP), June 2023
Kris Lukas
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Poster Presentation at TIDES USA: Oligonucleotide and Peptide Therapeutics (San Diego, 2023)
Autumn Moore
Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Spring 2023
Onyeche Oche
Graduate and Professional Student Government Grant, University of Iowa
Student Impact Grant, University of Iowa
Research-in-Progress Award, Midwest Social and Administrative Pharmacy Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago
American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Poster Presentation, Determining the Factors that Impede or Facilitate the Utilization of Telemedicine (Video Visits) for Geriatric patients, San Antonio, Texas
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Healthcare Conference Poster Presentation, A Qualitative Dual-site Analysis of the Pharmacist Discharge Care (PHARM-DC) Study, Tornoto, Ontario, Canada
Neha Paranjape
Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Travel Support, March 2023
Poster presentation: Gliotoxicity and Structure-Activity Relationship of Lower Chlorinated Biphenyls and Their Human-Relevant Metabolite
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2022
American College of Toxicology North American Graduate Fellowship, 2022
Graduate College GPSG Travel Award, 2022
Pratishtha Verma
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Fellowship , Fall 2023
Internship, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Summer 2023
2021-2022
Olajide Fadare
American Pharmacists Association Annual Conference (APhA) Poster Presentation, 2022
Midwest Social and Administrative Pharmacy Conference Oral Presentation, 2022
Leqi Fan
Keith Guillory Graduate Research Fellowship
Autumn Moore
Downtown Banner Campaign
Advancing Science Conference Grant
Summer Sloan Mini Grant
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship
Leyla Rezaei
2022 ACCP Student Abstract Award for poster, "Determination of the Abuse Potential of Extended-release Polyethylene Oxide Matrix Tablets Using a Whole-body Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic Model."
Nan Wu
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2023
David Nakhla
Dale and June Wurster Pharmaceutics Research Fellowship
Internship, Zoetis
Presenter, AAPS Conference
Ran Huo
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2022
Hannah Gruenwald
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Walla Malkawi
Dale E. and June P. Wurster Pharmaceutics Research Award, Fall 2021
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Spring 2023
Emese Kovacs
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Computational Psychiatry Symposium, 2nd Place, Best Poster Award
Zach Laird
Director's Award for poster: "Development of 3D-Printed Gene-Activated Calcium Phosphate Cement Scaffolds of Application in Bone Regeneration," 2022 UI CBB Conference.
2020-2021
Tim Acri
Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Aysheh Alrfooh
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Zaid Assaf
2020 AAPS Best Abstract Award for poster: Evaluation of Linked Protonation Effects on the Enthalpy of Phenobarbital Binding to Activated Carbon
Thanh Bach
Summer Fellowship (Covid-delayed Research)
Hala'ufia, Moana
NIH Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Noah (Zach) Laird
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Saikishore Meruva
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
T. Blake Monroe
Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Joseph O'Brien
Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Juliana Quarterman
National GEM Consortium Associate PhD Fellowship
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship (2016-Present)
Jackson Russo
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
NIH Biotechnology Training Grant
Sanjib Saha
Qais Farjo Memorial Travel Grant to attend ARVO 2021 Annual Meeting in Translational Research category
Kevin Tobin
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
2019-2020
Tim Acri
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Ammar Al-Khafaji
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Thanh Bach
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Laxmishanthi Chede
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Pratik Chheda
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Hannah Gruenwald
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Moana Hala'Ufia
Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship
Ran Huo
Center for Biotechnology and Biocatalysis Fellowship in Biotechnology
Noah (Zach) Laird
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Iowa Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship Program
I-Chau (Emily) Liang
Diversity Scholarship
T. Blake Monroe
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Autumn Moore
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Joseph O'Brien
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Juliana Quarterman
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Jackson Russo
Center for Biotechnology and Biocatalysis Fellowship in Biotechnology
2018-2019
Mohammed Albarki
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Suhaila Alhaj-Suliman
Internship, Biogen, Massachusetts, Summer 2018
Laxmishanthi Chede
Health Sciences Research Week Poster Award
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Noah (Zach) Laird
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Autumn Moore
Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship
Juliana Quarterman
University of Iowa Dare to Discover Banner Campaign Nominee
Kevin Tobin
Iowa Recruitment Scholarship
2017-2018
Rondine Allen
2017 Hancher Finkbine Medallion Nominee
STEM Trailblazer Award, presented by BGAPS, NOBCChE, and the Pi Kappa Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Wisam Al Bakri
1st Place Award-Biological and Health Sciences, The 19th Annual Jakobsen Memorial Conference
Ballard and Seashore Fellowship, Spring 2018
Ali Al-Jumaili
Travel Award, UI Graduate Student Senate
Laxmi Shanthi Chede
Post-Comprehensive Research Award
Kareem Ebeid
Fall 2017 Ballard Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Sachin Gharse
Spring 2018 Ballard Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Megan Kelchen
Health Sciences Research Week: Poster Award
Noah (Zach) Laird
Center for Biotrechnology and Biocatalysis Fellowship in Biotechnology
T. Blake Monroe
NIH Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant Program Fellowship
Joseph O'Brien
NIH Training Grant in Biotechnology
Victoria Parker
Social Humanitarian Award, presented by BGAPS, NOBCChE, and the Pi Kappa Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
National Student Representative of NOBCChE American Physiological Society (APS) Graduate Student Ambassador
American Physiological Society Fellowship Porter Physiological Development Fellowship Continuation Award and the Eleanor Ison Franklin Fellow (for having the highest ranked renewal application, receiving a second year of funding through the Porter Physiology Fellowship Continuation Award)
KC Donnelly Externship Award (University of Kentucky)
Selected to participate in the NIH Clinical and Translational Research Course (July 10-21, 2017)
Namita Sawant
Ballard and Seashore Fellowship, Spring 2018
Behnoush Khorsand-Sourkohi
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Fall 2017
Health Sciences Research Week: Poster Award
Health Sciences Research Week: First Place, Scientific Humor Category
Ernane Claudio de Souza, Jr.
2nd Place Award, Biological and Health Sciences, The 19th Annual Jakobsen Memorial Conference
Ballard and Seashore Fellowship, Spring 2018
2016-2017
Kawther Ahmed
Summer 2016 Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Wisam Al-Bakri
Internship, Merck, Philadelphia, Summer 2016
Fall 2016 Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College
Graduate & Professional Student Government Travel Award
Ali Al-Jumaili
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award for American Pharmacists Association Conference, Baltimore, March 2016, Poster Presentation
Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Spring 2017
Chris Bodle
2016 Ballard Seashore Fellowship Award
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Laxmi Shanthi Chede
Poster Presentation, 3rd Place, PGRSM Conference, Kansas City
Justine Delgado
Joseph G. Cannon Travel Award
Sachin Gharse
Fall 2016 Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College
Summer 2016 Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Graduate & Professional Student Government Travel Award
Ballard Seashore Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Fall 2017
Bharath Gowdampally
Post-Comprehensive Research Award for Spring 2017
Yu Jiang
Internship, Genentech, So. San Francisco
Megan Kelchen
Fall 2016 Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College
Chaitanya Kulkarni
2016 Ballard Seashore Fellowship Award
Internship - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Boston
Noah (Zach) Laird
Recruitment Scholarship
Victoria Parker
American Physiological Society, William Townsend Porter Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Internship, SC Johnson, Racine, WI
Jacob Poliskey
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Juliana Quarterman
Guillory Fellowship, 2016-2017
Iowa Recruitment Fellowship
Center for Biotechnology and Biocatalysis Fellowship
University of Iowa Dare to Discover Banner Campaign Nominee
Namita Sawant
Fall 2016 Post-Comprehensive Research Award
Summer 2016 Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Josie Schamp
Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Spring 2017
Aditya Singaraju
Internship, AbbVie
Yu-Yu Tien
Dissertation Semester Fellowship, Spring 2017
Christopher White
Fall 2016 Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College
Yiran Zhang
Post-Comprehensive Research Award for Spring 2017
2015-2016
Kawther Ahmed
Three Minute Thesis competition, First Place
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Wisam Al-Barki
Internship, G&W Laboratories Department of Product Development, New Jersey
Amal Ayyoub
Internship, AstraZeneca
Kendra Bell
Guillory Fellowship, 2015-2016
Recruitment Scholarship
Youwei Bi
Internship, FDA
Nathan Delvaux
Recruitment Scholarship
Sachin Gharse
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Fall 2016
Megan Kelchen
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Fall 2016
Outstanding Poster Award, Health Sciences Research Week, 2016
Behnoush Khorsand-Sourkohi
AAPS Foundation Travel Award, AAPS 2015 National Meeting
AAPS Formulation Design and Development Section Travel Award
The University of Iowa 2015 Inventor Award, University of Iowa Research Foundation, May 2016
Carver College of Medicine Cover Art Contest in Scientific Humor Category
Outstanding Poster Presentation for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Health Sciences Research Week
Chaitanya Kulkarni
2015 Selection for the NIH Clinical Center's Clinical and Translational Research Course
University of Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Travel Award
Saikishore Meruva
Guillory Fellowship
Victoria Parker
Poster Presentation Award, 24th Annual Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Conference, Fall 2015
Namita Sawant
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Fall 2016
Chris White
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Fall 2016
Yiran Zhang
Graduate and Professional Student Government Research Grant, May 2016
2014-2015
Arturo Aguirre
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Biotechnology for the UI Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Kawther Ahmed
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Certificate, International Student Advocate, International Students and Scholar Services
Ali Al-Jumaili
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Certificate, International Student Advocate, International Students and Scholar Services
Rakesh Awasthi
Internship, Novartis
Guillory Fellowship, 2014-2015
Bhanu Bejgum
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, 2014
AAPS Travelship Award
Christopher Bodle
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship;
Laxmi Shanthi Chede
Guillory Fellowship, 2014-2015
Justine Delgado
Sloan Mini Grant; UI Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing fellow
Ana Ferreira
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Fellowship; Internship, Adria/BI
Guillory Fellowship, 2014-2015
Michael Hayes
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship;
Colin Higgins
Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Vijaya Joshi
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Megan Kelchen
Outstanding Poster award, Health Sciences Research Week, 2015
Behnoush Khorsand-Sourkohi
Outstanding Poster award, Health Sciences Research Week, 2015; Hugh Vollrath Ross Scholarship
Terra Kruger
Guillory Fellowship, 2014-2015
Chaitanya Kulkarni
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Internship, DNA Integrated Technologies
Yingjian Li
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Research Fellowship
Aaron Miller
Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Quynh Hoa Nguyen
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Victoria Parker
Iowa Biosciences Advantage Fellowship; 2015 National GEM Consortium Fellow; SLOAN Mini Travel Grant; 2014 NOBCChE AM41 Advancing Science Travel Grant
Carlos Peroza
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Fellowship
Eric Rodriguez
Iowa Biosciences Advantage Fellowship
Aashay Shah
Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Namita Sawant
Internship, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Daniel Schenck
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Fellowship
Jacob Simmering
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Aditya Singaraju
Guillory-Matheson-Flanagan-Wurster Graduate Fellowship for the year 2014-2015
Sumeet Singla
Guillory Fellowship, 2014-2015
Mai Tu
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award; Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Benjamin Urick
Council on Teaching, Outstanding Teaching Assistant /award
Brigitte Vanle
Iowa Biosciences Advantage Fellowship; 1st place, Biophysical Society Poster Session, NOBCCHE AM41 Conference; Ballard Seashore Dissertation Fellowship; 1st Place, Poster Session, Aging Mind & Brain Initiative, the University of Iowa
Peng Yu
Internship, AbbVie; GSS Travel Award- AAPS Conference, San Diego
Yiran Zhang
Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Grant
Hui Zu
Internship, AbbVie
2013-2014
Ahmed, Kawther
Annual Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
Ioana Craciun
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Sheetal D'Mello
2nd Place, Poster Session, 16th Annual James F. Jakobsen Symposium (The University of Iowa); Graduate Student Symposium Award in Biotechnology, AAPS 2013; University of Iowa Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Travel Award; University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Student (ECGPS) Travel Award
Ross Friedman
UI Graduate College/COP Dissertation Semester Fellowship; AbbVie Internship
Jayoung Han
APhA-APRS Postgraduate Best Paper Award in the Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences - Honorable mention; College of Pharmacy/Graduate College Dissertation Semester Fellowship; ECGPS Dissertation Grant
Colin Higgins
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), 2014 Washington Fellow; Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award; ASPET Travel Award
Vijaya Joshi
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, 2014
Denison Kuruvilla
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
2013 Summer Internship, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Yingjian Li
Summer Internship, Genentech
Duncan Mackie
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award to the ASPET Annual Meeting on Experimental Biology 2014; The Graduate and Professional Student Government (ECGPS) Travel Award Grant, 2013-2014; College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship 2013-2014
Carrie Morris
AACP Walmart Scholarship
Quynh Hoa Nguyen
AAPS Graduate Symposium Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics,Drug Metabolism, and Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Research, AAPS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX (November, 2013); Summer Internship, Genentech
Eric Rodriguez
Poster Award, Health Sciences Research Week 2014; Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Josephine Schamp
Poster Award, Health Sciences Research Week 2014
Daniel Schenck
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Aashay Shah
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Jacob Simmering
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; 3rd Place, Biological and health Sciences Poster Session, 16th Annual James F. Jakobsen Symposium
Aditya Singaraju
Dr. J. Keith Guillory Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Fellowship
Brigitte Vanle,
Director’s Award from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing; Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant; Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Yuexin Tang
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Yiran Zhang
APhA-APRS Postgraduate Best paper Award - Honorable Mention in the Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences; Student Travel Grant Recipient for International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 19th Annual International Meeting, Montreal, Canada; Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Award
Hui Zu
Summer Internship, AbbVie
2013-2012
Edwin Squirewell
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) / Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Travel Award Recipient, 2013. Experimental Biology Meeting April 20-24, 2013 in Boston, MA.
C. Aaron Monroy
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) / Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Travel Award Recipient, 2013. Experimental Biology Meeting April 20-24, 2013 in Boston, MA.
UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship
Elizabeth Chang
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
UI Presidential Fellowship
Brandon Patterson
UI Presidential Fellowship
Matt Witry
UI Presidential Fellowship
Samuel Crowley
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Oscar W. Garza
UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship
Colin Higgins
AFPE Fellowship
Graduate Student Travel Award from American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Duncan Mackie
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship for 2012-2013
Joseph G. Cannon Excellence in Graduate Research Travel Award
Tyrell Towle
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Hui Zu
J. Keith Guillory Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Fellowship
Ross Friedman
Flanagan/Guillory/Matheson/Wurster Fellowship 2012
Rowan AlEjielat
UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship
UI Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Travel Award
Manar Al-Ghabeish
2012 Summer Internship, Boehringer Ingelheim
UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship
Bhanu Bejgum
2012 Summer Internship, Abbott Laboratories
Varsha Dhamankar
2012 Summer Internship, Genentech, Inc.
Vijaya Joshi
2012 Summer Internship, Genentech, Inc.
Stacy Ross
2012 Summer Internship, Abbott Laboratories
2013 UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Semester Fellowship
Peng Yu
2012 Summer Internship, Boehringer Ingelheim
ECGPS Travel Grant for 2012 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in Chicago
Ben Urick
UI Presidential Fellowship
Brigitte Vanle
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship for 2012-2013
Stacy Sommerfeld Ross
PhRMA Foundation Pharmaceutics Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
UI College of Pharmacy Dissertation Fellowship
Jacob Simmering
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Chaitanya Kulkarni
Center for Biocatalysis (CBB) Predoctoral Fellowship in Biotechnology
Jamshetji Tata Trust Scholarship for Higher Education for Academic Excellence in Graduate Studies
2011-2012
Ross Friedman
First inaugural recipient of the Flanagan/Guillory/Wurster/Matheson Pharmaceutics Fellowship
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Duncan Mackie
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship 2012
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship for 2011-2012
C. Aaron Monroy
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology / Minority Access to Research Careers Travel Award Recipient, Experimental Biology-2011 and 2012
Dolores Shockley Best Abstract Award, Experimental Biology-2011
MNPC Graduate Student Travel Award, Gordon Research Conferences: Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks 2012
Carl Storm Travel Award, Gordon Research Conferences: Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks
Ben Urick
AFPE/Phi Lambda Sigma First-Year Graduate Student Fellowship
Tyrelle Towle
American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Pre-doctoral Fellowship
NIH Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Elizabeth Chang
2011-2012 AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Brigitte Vanle
NOBBCHE Travel Award - Regional Conference 2011; Aging Mind & Brain Symposium - 2012, Poster Merit Award; NIH Training Grant in Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Bhanu Bejgum
J. Keith Guillory Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Fellowship
Rowan AlEjielat
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Heidi Schwanz
2011-2012 AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; 2011-2012 Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Samuel Thomas Crowley
2011-2012 AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; 2011-2012 Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Manar Al-Ghabeish
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award to AAPS Meeting, Washing, D.C., October 2011
Elected student member in the University of Iowa Research Council
Stacy Sommerfeld Ross
2011-2012 PhRMA Fellowship; Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant, Fall 2011
Matt Witry
UI Presidential Fellow; APRS Post-graduate Officer
Yu-Yu Tien
Winner, College of Pharmacy Poster Session, Health Sciences Research Week
Koby Kizzire
MNPC Graduate Student Travel Award to American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy 15th Annual Meeting
Sheetal D'Mello
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Mai Tu
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Colin Higgins
Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Sheetal D'Mello
University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Student (ECGPS) Travelships
Chaitanya Kulkarni
J.N. Tata Endowment Scholarship for Higher Education for Academic Excellence in Graduate Studies
2010-2011
Lydia Mexas
2nd Place Oral Presentation, 12th Annual Jakobsen Conference
Eduardo Azevedo
2nd Place, Podia Presentation, Pharmaceutics Graduate Research Meeting, Columbus, OH
Matt Witry
Elected Post-graduate Officer 2011-2013 for American Pharmacy Assocation Academy of Pharmacy Research and Science
Laurie Eckert
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Poster Award, Usha Balakrishman Prize, Best Poster-2010 Biocatalysis & Bioprocessing Conference; 1st Place Oral Presentation, 12th Annual Jakobsen Conference; Center on Aging Poster Merit Award: Health Sciences Research Week
Oscar Garza
Graduate Student Senate Supplemental Travel Award for Research; Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant; Stanley Graduate Award for International Research; 2011 AACP Walmart Scholars Program Scholarship
Duncan Mackie
ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award to the ASPET Annual Meeting on Experimental Biology 2011; Graduate Student Senate Travel Award to the ASPET Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology
Erin Allen
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego-November 2010; Travel Award-Society of Toxicology 49th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT-March 2011; Iowa Women of Innovation Finalist
Erin Thatcher
Best Young Researcher Presentation, 16th International Social Pharmacy Workshop, University of Lisbon - Portugal
Stacy Sommerfeld Ross
Pharmacy Research Manufacturers of America Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutics; Sandra H. Barkan Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor for 2011
Jiang Qiu
Travel Award to American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists National Biotechnology Conference, San Francisco, May 2011
Varsha Dhamankar
Travel Award, AAPS-New Orleans-November 2010
Vijaya Joshi
Travel Award, AAPS- New Orleans, November 2010
Heidi Schwanz
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Graduate Student Senate Travel Award; 2010-2011 Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Stacy Sommerfield
Best Podium Presentation, 43rd Annual Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research meeting, June 2011
Erin Allen
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Brandon Patterson
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Graduate College Certificate in Teaching; appointed member-at-large on APhA New Practitioner Advisory Committee
Mai Tu
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, AAPS-New Orleans, Nov. 2010
Mark Ericson
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Laurie Eckert
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Matthew Witry
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Elected Post-graduate Officer 2011-2013 for APhA Academy of Pharmacy Research & Science; Graduate College Certificate in Teaching
Amanda Fenner
AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Sheetal D'Mello
University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Student (ECGPS) Travelships
2009-2010
Laurie Eckert
1st Place in the Biological and Health Sciences category at the 12th Annual James F. Jakobsen Conference
Christian Fernandez
Selected to participate in the 2010 St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium
Rania Hamed
WISE Travel Award
Lydia Mexas
2nd Place in the Biological and Health Sciences category at the 12th Annual James F. Jakobsen Conference
Jhon Rojas
IPEC Foundation Travel Award
Manar Al-Ghabeish
Keith Guillory Pharmaceutical Fellowship
Erin Allen
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Outstanding Poster Presentation Interdisciplinary Health Research Day
David G. Anderson
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship; AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
Elizabeth Chang
Presidential Fellowship
Tom Crowley
Presidential Fellowship
Laurie Eckert
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Mark Ericson
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Amanda Fenner
American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Amber Goedken
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Koby Kizzire
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Yogita Krishnamachari
Keith Guillory Pharmaceutical Fellowship
Kevin Marks
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
C. Aaron Monroy
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Carrie Morris
Presidential Fellowship
Quynh Hoa Nguyen
Vietnamese Government Scholarship
Olayinka Oladimeji
UI Graduate Student Senate Scholarly Presentation Travel Award; University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Student Scholarly Presentation Travel Funds Award; UI Center on Aging Award for best presentation in the 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Health Research Day
Brandon Patterson
Presidential Fellowship; WalMart Scholarship for AACP Annual Meeting
Daniel Schenck
Novartis Summer Graduate Fellowship
Heidi Schwanz
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Edwin Squirewell
Dean’s Fellowship
Adam Tordoff
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Matt Witry
Presidential Fellowship; WalMart Scholarship for AACP Annual Meeting
2008-2009
Manar Al-Ghabeish
John Lach Memorial Scholarship
Erin Allen
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant; AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
David G. Anderson
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award; Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship; AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; University of Iowa Student Government Scholarly Presentation Award
Eduardo Azevedo
Fulbright Fellowship
Laurie Eckert
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant; Graduate Student Senate Travel Award; University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Student Scholarly Presentation Travel Funds Award
Mark Ericson
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Amanda Fenner
Research Fellowship Program CREO-MHIRT (Conservation, Research and Education Opportunities); Minority Health and Disparities International Research Training, Panama City, Panama. Bioactivity Guided Isolation of Natural Products; AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Amber Goedken
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Janjira Intra
3rd Place in the Biological and Health Sciences at the 10th Annual James F. Jakobsen Conference
Kevin Marks
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Beth Miskimmins
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Quynh Hoa Nguyen
Vietnamese Government Scholarship
Olayinka Oladimeji
Center on Aging Award, 9th Annual Student Interdisciplinary Health Research Poster Session; University of Iowa Student Government Scholarly Presentation Travel Award
Xiaoyun Pan
Public Policy Center Award, 9th Annual Student Interdisciplinary Health Research Poster Session; Award of Excellence, 9th Annual Research Achievement Day Symposium and Poster Session
Brandon Patterson
UI Presidential Fellowship
Yang Qiu
Keith Guillory Pharmaceutical Fellowship
Daniel Schenck
J. Keith Guillory Pharmaceutical Fellowship
Adam Tordoff
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Shaowei Wan
Graduate College Summer Fellowship
Matt Witry
UI Presidential Fellowship
2007-2008
Aiman Abbas
Center of Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Pre-doctoral Fellowship
David Anderson
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Eduardo Azevado
Graduate College Fellowship
Ira Buckner
Presidential Fellowship
Edugie Ekuase
Graduate College Dean's Fellowship
Amanda Fenner
Research Fellowship Program CREO-MHIRT (Conservation, Research and Education Opportunities; Minority Health and Disparities International Research Training), Panama City, Panama. "Bioactivity Guided Isolation of Natural Products."; NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Kevin Freise
Presidential Fellowship and AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Attended the "Advanced Methods of PK/PD Systems Analysis workshop this summer in Marina Del Rey, CA
Erin Gagan
Outstanding Poster Award at Central States Society of Toxicology Meeting
Amber Goedken
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Rania Hamed
John Lach Memorial Scholarship and AAPS Travel Award to attend 2007 Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego
Janjira Intra
Received a travel award to the PDA 2007 Conference in Las Vegas
Kevin Marks
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Rachel Miller
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Beth Miskimins
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and CBB NIH Training Grant Fellowship
Jennifer Rees
Usha Balakrishman Prize for Best Poster at the CBB Conference
Joanne Reiland
AAPS PDD Travel Award, Pharmaceutics Division AAPS Travel Award, and Presidential Fellowship
Garrett Rettig
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Matthew Rosebraugh
Keith Guillory Pharmaceutics Graduate Fellow
Matthew Schmidt
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Kevin Tidgewell
AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Thitima Wattanavijitkul
Thai Government Scholarship