Learner Awards

1997

Karunya Kandimalla

  • Best poster presentation, Minority Biomedical Research Support Symposium 1997, Tallahassee, FL

2001

Loice Kikwai

  • Best poster award at the Minority Biomedical Symposium held at Florida A&M in the fall of 2001 sponsored by Eli Lilly.

2003

Karunya Kandimalla

  • Graduate Symposium Award in Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery, and Pharmaceutical Technology, AAPS annual meeting 2003, Salt Lake City, UT (awarded for outstanding graduate research work).

2004

Alfred Haynes

  • Best poster award at the Minority Biomedical Symposium held at Florida A&M, Fall 2004, sponsored by Eli Lilly.

Pankaj Dayal

  • Best poster award at the Minority Biomedical Symposium held at Florida A&M, Fall 2004, which Eli Lilly sponsored.

Rukia Marijani

  • Best poster presentation at the GRASP meeting in Atlanta 2004.

2005

Alfred Haynes

  • Best poster award at the Minority Biomedical Symposium held at Florida A&M Fall 2005 sponsored by Eli Lilly.

Loice Kikwai

  • AAPS outstanding graduate research symposium award in Pharmaceutical Technologies 2005. L. kikwai, R. J. Babu, R. Oliveira, C. A. Armstrong, J. C. Ansel, and M. Singh, In vitro and in vivo evaluation of topical formulations of Spantide II, AAPS PharmSciTech 2005 (Outstanding manuscript).
  • Best poster award at the Minority Biomedical Symposium held at Florida A&M in the fall of 2005 sponsored by Eli Lilly.

Pankaj Dayal

  • First position for his poster presentation during GRASP meeting held at AMS College of Pharmacy, Long Island University, Brookings NY during 2005.
  • AAPS outstanding graduate research symposium award in Pharmaceutical Technologies 2005. P. Dayal, V. Pillay, R. J. Babu, and M. Singh, Box–Behnken Experimental Design in the Development of a Nasal Drug Delivery System of Model Drug Hydroxyurea: Characterization of Viscosity, In-vitro Drug Release, Droplet Size, and Dynamic Surface Tension, AAPS PharmSciTech 2005 (Outstanding manuscript).

2008

Pinaki Desai

  • Best poster award at GRASP (Graduate Research Association of Students in Pharmacy), Florida A&M University, Tallahassee FL, June 2008.

Apurva Patel

  • Best poster award at MBRS (Minority Biomedical Research Support), Florida A&M University, Tallahassee FL, June 2008.

2009

Pinaki Desai

  • Best poster award at Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee FL, October 2009.

Apurva Patel

  • Travel Fellowship Award, To attend and Present Poster at 2009 annual AAPS meeting, Los Angeles, October 2009.

Terrick Andey

  • Best poster award at Eli Lilly Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, October 2009.

2010

Pinaki Desai

  • Best poster award at Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, September 2010.
  • Best graduate student award, Dr. Charles Walker award, at Florida A&M University, College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tallahassee FL, September 2010.

Apurva Patel

  • Best poster award at Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee FL, October 2010.
  • Awarded Outstanding Graduate student award, Dr. Charles Walker award, at Florida A&M University, College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tallahassee FL, September 2010.
  • Travel Fellowship Award American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (PPDM Section), To attend and Present Poster at 2010 annual PSWC and AAPS meeting, New Orleans, October 2010.

Terrick Andey

  • Best poster award at Eli Lilly Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, September 2010.
  • Student Scholar Award by AAiPS, American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists, Washington DC, AAPS October 2010.

2011

Pinaki Desai

  • Travel Fellowship Award by Eli Lilly and Company, To attend and Present Poster at 2011 NOBCChE Health Science and BioTechnology Midwest Regional Conference. Eli Lilly and Company (Corporate Center), Indianapolis IN, November 2011.

Apurva Patel

  • Travel Fellowship Award by Merck and Modified release focus group, To attend and Present Poster at 2011 annual AAPS meeting, Washington DC, October 2011.
  • Student Scholar Award by AAPS, American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists, Washington DC, October 2011.

Terrick Andey

  • Best poster award at Eli Lilly Graduate Feeder Conference and Student Research Forum at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, September 2011.
  • Best poster award at GRASP (Graduate Research Association of Students in Pharmacy), Florida A&M University, Tallahassee FL, June 2011.

2012

Pinaki Desai

  • Student Grant Award, 2011 – 2012 Graduate Students Research Awards Program (GSRAP), Florida A&M University, College of Graduate Studies, Tallahassee FL, March 2012.
  • Best graduate student award, Dr. Charles Walker award, at Florida A&M University, College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tallahassee FL, May 2012.

Apurva Patel

  • Graduate Symposium Award from FDD in AAPS, 2012
  • Student Scholar Award from AAiPS, American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists, October 2012.

Terrick Andey

  • Student Grant Award, 2012 Graduate Students Research Awards Program (GSRAP), Florida A&M University, College of Graduate Studies, Tallahassee FL, March 2012.

Cedar Boakey

  • Second Place Winner, Graduate Research Association of Students in Pharmacy (GRASP), Tallahassee, FL. Poster Presentation, 2012.

2013

Pinaki Desai

  • Student Travel Award from the Dermatopharmaceutics focus group at the AAPS meeting in 2013.

Apurva Patel

  • Student Travel Award from FDD section for AAPS, 2013.

Cedar Boakey

  • Travelship Award recipient, Formulation Design and Development (FDD) Section of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Antonio, TX. Poster Presentation, 2013.
  • Travel Grant Award recipient, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Antonio, TX. Poster Presentation, 2013.
  • Hot Topic Graduate Student Podium Presenter, Barrier Function of Mammalian Skin-Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Waterville, NH, 2013. I also got a travel award.

2014

Cedar Boakey

  • Third Place Winner, Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student Poster Competition, 2014.

 

Nusrat Choudhury

  • GRASP 2014-Best Poster Award in 33rd GRASP Conference St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, June 2014.

2015

Cedar Boakey

  • FDD travel award winner in 2015 from the AAPS for the best poster at the Annual AAPS meeting.
  • AAPS award in 2015 for the best poster given at the AAPS annual meeting 2015.

Nusrat Choudhury

  • Golden Key International Honor Member at Golden Key International Honor Society, April 2015.

2016

Nusrat Choudhury

  • Student representative for the Nanotechnology Focus group of the AAPS, 2017
  • Chair, AAPS chapter at FAMU-Pharmacy, 2016.
  • Travel Grant Award Recipient, Poster Presentation School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, October 2016.
  • GRASP 2016- Best Podium Award in 35th GRASP Conference Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, July 2016.

Arvind Bagde

  • AAPS best poster award from the FDD section was presented at the AAPS national meeting in Denver, CO, 2016.

Shallu Kuthelria

  • Best poster award at the GRASP conference in 2016.

Ebony Nottingham

  • GRASP 2016- Best Podium Award in 35th GRASP Conference Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, July 2016.
  • Best poster award, Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student Poster Competition, 2016.

2017

Nusrat Choudhury

  • Best poster award, Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student Poster Competition, 2017.

Shallu Kuthelria

  • Best poster award at the GRASP conference in 2017.

Arvind Bagde

  • The current chair of the AAPS chapter at FAMU College of Pharmacy.
  • Student representative for the MRFG of the AAPS, 2017.

2018

Shallu Kutlehria

  • Best poster award at the Nanobio collaborative International Conference, Jan 19-Jan 20, 2018, Tampa, Fl, USA.

Nusrat Choudhury

  • Honorable mention award at the Nanobio collaborative International Conference, Jan 19-Jan 20 2018, Tampa, Fl, USA.
  • Best poster award, Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student Poster Competition, 2018.

2019

Nilkumar Patel

  • 3rd prize in oral 3 minutes speaking presentation,  Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student 3-minute speaking Competition, 2019.

Arvind Bagde

  • 2nd prize in oral 3 minutes speaking presentation,  Graduate Student Appreciation Week, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Graduate. Student 3-minute speaking Competition, 2019.

Shallu Kutlehria

  • Presentation Distinction Award- 2019 Nanoflorida International Conference, Tampa (Oral Presentation). High-throughput 3D printing of corneal stromal equivalents.
  • AAPS 2019 Best Abstract Award Recipient, Travel Award Recipient. (Poster Presentation). High-throughput 3D bioprinting of corneal equivalents for realistic blinking eye perfusion model.
  • Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) 2019 by American chemical society (ACS), Tampa, Florida, May 2019-3D printed corneal equivalents (Oral Presentation).

Aragaw Gebeyehu

  • Presentation Distinction Award- 2019 Nanoflorida International Conference, Tampa (Oral Presentation). 3D printed tumor spheroids for disease modeling and chemotherapeutic drug screening.

Peggy Arthur

  • Nanoflorida conference: The anticancer efficacy of the combinational treatment of Docetaxel-loaded Pegylated liposomes and a tumor-stromal disrupting agent in lung cancer. 3rd prize award for poster presentation

2020

Nilkumar Patel

  • The current chair of the AAPS chapter at FAMU College of Pharmacy.

Ebony Nottingham

  • First place in the poster presentation entitled “First place in the poster presentation entitled “Whole transcriptomic analysis to delineate major synergistic effects of methyl 2-cyano-3,11-dioxo-18beta-olean-1,12-dien-30-oate (CDODA-Me) and Erlotinib in (ERL) in ERL resistant lung cancer HCC827 cells” in the biological science category in 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, Washington DC, February 2020.” in the biological science category in 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, Washington DC, February 2020.