News and Events

We are looking for Postdoc, graduate (PhD and Master) students, visiting fellows, and scholars to join our TransDGDR lab.

Contact Dr. Martin Chougule for more information.

2016

September
Dr. Chougule’s lab research work focused on targeted gene and drug combinations for lung cancer has been accepted for publication in the Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, a Nature publishing group Journal. Congratulations to Laura and Chougule.

August 15
Dr. Chougule’s TransDGDR lab moved to the Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pii Center for Pharmaceutical Technology, National Center for Natural Products Research, the Research of Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi. Moving with great memories during the past 6 years at the  University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy.

August 5
Congratulations, Dr. Micah Glasgow! You earned the Ph.D. degree.

May 12

Dr. Chougule received the prestigious Koichi and Taniyo Taniguchi Award for Excellence and Innovation at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. This award recognizes faculty with creative teaching and research contributions and fostering the mission of the University.

April-July
Congratulations, Dr. Susanne Youngren-Ortiz! You earned the Ph.D. degree and joined as a Formulation Scientist I at Akorn Pharmaceuticals in Vernon Hills, IL

2014

November 10
Micah has received multiple scholarships and awards, including the Na Ho’okahua Department of Education Award, the Liko A’e Native Hawaiian Leadership Scholarship, and more.

November 2-6
Dr. Chougule and two postgraduate students, Micah and Susanne attended AAPS annual meeting 2014 in San Diego. Congratulations to Dr. Chougule for his UH Travel Award, Susanne for the 2014 AAPS Formulation Design and Development Section (FDD) Travelship Award and Micah for the 2014 Alex Travel Award. Posters presented in this meeting were “M1210 – Onconase Loaded Albumin-Chitosan Hybrid Nanocarriers for Mesothelioma Therapy”, “M1039 – Formulation and Characterization of STAT6 siRNA Matrix-Loaded Gelatin Nanocarriers” and “W4332 – Modeling and Validation of Material Properties of Crystalline Particles: Formation and Stability under Stress.”

Dr. Chougule, Susanne, and Micah presented posters at the AAPS meeting.

October 29
Dr. Patrick Sinko (Associate Vice President for Research in the Office of Research and Economic Development, Rutgers University, and Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University) visited our lab and College of Pharmacy. He presented “Intestinal Delivery of Nanocarriers: Targeting, Mechanisms and Translation”.

Drs. Mahavir Chougule, Patrick Sinko, and Ken Morris during lab and DKICP visit.

October
Congratulations to Nishant for his new position as Chair of the AAPS student chapter 2014-2015, Susanne as vice-chair, Micah as accountant, and Rongbing as secretary.

October 6-8
Dr. Chougule attended the NanoDDS meeting in 2014. He presented a poster “Design and Analysis Hybrid Onconase Nanocarriers for Mesothelioma Therapy”. He also delivered the invited talk “Targeted Nanocarriers for the Treatment of Cancer” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

September
Farewell Anissa and thank you for your help in the lab. Happy Birthday to Rongbing and Micah.

September 1
The article “Nanocarrier mediated delivery of siRNA/miRNA in combination with chemotherapeutic agents for cancer therapy: Current progress and advances” was accepted in the Journal of Controlled Release.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2014.09.001

The article “Designing Hybrid Onconase Nanocarriers for Mesothelioma Therapy: A Taguchi Orthogonal Array and Multivariate Component Driven Analysis” was accepted in Molecular Pharmaceutics.

DOI: 10.1021/mp500403b

April 24
Congratulations!!! Dr. Chougule has won the “Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Continuance Award” for “Targeted Combination Therapy for Lung Cancer”. This proposal aims to develop, characterize, and evaluate the nanocarrier systems of siRNA in combination with chemo drugs for lung cancer treatment.

August 5

Dr. Robert S. Shirparo, MD (3rd from right) visited our lab and donated to support our research.

2013

December 16-20

Dr. Chougule (right) with Dr. Robert Langer (left), David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA during a poster presentation at the 12th US-Japan symposium on drug delivery systems, 2013.

November 10–14

Dr. Chougule (right) with Prof. Vladimir P. Torchilin (left), Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, School of Pharmacy Northeastern University, Boston, MA during the 2013 AAPS annual meeting.

 

April 2012 – April 2013

Dr. Chougule (2nd from left) received the 2013 and 2012 Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award at
American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting.