- Congratulations to Jiamin Wu for receiving “Young Scientist Travel Grant for the 2023 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas”.
- Congratulations to Vanessa Chan for receiving “Third place, 3MT competition, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC”, 2023.
- Congratulations to Vanessa Chan for receiving “Best MSc poster presentation award, 2023 UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Symposium”, 2023.
- Congratulations to Lukas Hohenwarter for receiving ” Kam Li Ma Scholarship in Pharmaceutical Sciences”, 2023.
- Congratulations to Jiamin Wu for receiving “CC-CRS Travel Award ($1,000)”, 2023.
- Congratulations to Po-Han Chao for receiving “NanoMedicines Innovation Network PhD Award ($60,000)”, 2022-2024.
- Congratulations to Anne Nguyen for receiving “Mitchell-Dwivedi Graduate Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences ($13,950)”, 2023
- Congratulations to Nojoud AL Fayez for receiving “PhD Best Poster Award” at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS).
- Congratulations to Anne Nguyen for receiving “CIHR Doctoral Award”, 2021.
- Congratulations to Dr. Shyh-Dar Li for receiving $300, 000 grant from Michael Smith Health Research Foundation for the project “Developing A Safe And Effective Analgesic For Chronic Pain Relief”
- Congratulations to Griffin Pauli and Anne Nguyen for receiving top 4 poster presentations at 2019 CC-CRS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C.
- Dr. Roland Böttger received a one-year postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Value: $59,395.68 CAD
- Congratulations to Anne Nguyen for receiving “Best Junior PhD Podium Presentation” at the 2019 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Symposium.
- Congratulations to Griffin Pauli for receiving “Best MSc Podium Presentation” at the 2019 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Symposium.
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Congratulations to Dr. Shyh-Dar Li for receiving $50, 000 USD grant from National Organization for Rare Disorders and Appendix Cancer / Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Research Foundation for the project “Modulation of Tumor Immune Microenvironment for Enhanced Therapy of Pseudomyxoma Peritonei”
- Roland Boettger and Lukas Hohenwarter receives $70, 000 MITACS Accelerate Grant for the project “Pilot-scale preparation of phospholipid-free small unilamellar vesicle formulations with potential in treatment of hepatic diseases”
- Congratulations to Griffin Pauli for winning the first place award in faculty’s 3-Minute Thesis contest.
- Congratulations to Wei-Lun Tang for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Development of a Fast and Efficient Liposomal Drug Loading Technology for Poorly Water Soluble Drugs: Formulation, Characterization, and Potential Applications”.
- Congratulations to Wunan Zhang for successfully defending his MSc thesis titled “Comparison of Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution of Doxorubicin Loaded in PEGylated Liposomes and a Phospholipid-Free Small Unilamilar Vehicle”.
- Wei-Lun Tang receives the Kai-King Chow and Cheng-Yok Chow Graduate Scholarship in Pharmaceutics.
- Wei-Lun Tang receives the Mitchell-Dwivedi Graduate Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences based on his recent publication in Molecular Pharmaceutics (2017): Wei-Lun Tang, Wei-Hsin (Sophia) Tang, Weihsu Claire Chen, Charles Diako, Carolyn F. Ross, and Shyh-Dar Li. “Development of a Rapidly Dissolvable Oral Pediatric Formulation for Mefloquine Using Liposomes”, ACS Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2017, 14 (6), pp 1969–1979.
- Wei-Lun Tang received the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements ($6,000) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
- Congratulations to Shyh-Dar Li and Colin Ross (PIs) for receiving a $249,361 grant from Genome BC for the project “In vivo genome editing by non-viral gene delivery” (Oct 1, 2017 – Mar 31, 2019).
- Nobuhito Hamano won the first place poster award in the 2017 Vancouver Nanomedicine Day Conference.
- Anne Nguyen won the Summer Research Program Poster Award (first place) for her project “Modulating Physiochemical Properties of a Small Peptide Drug by Chemical Conjugation”.
- Dr. Li receives NSERC Discovery Grant titled “Development of active loading technologies for encapsulating highly charged molecules into liposomes” (2017-2022, $140,000)
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li has been invited to join the College of Reviewers, CIHR. The vision of the College is to establish an internationally recognized, centrally managed resource to support excellence in peer review for diverse and emerging health research and knowledge translation activities. The College is intended to be a national resource that, over time, will serve the peer review needs of CIHR and its partners.
- Wei-Lun Tang, PhD candidate, has been named a 2017 recipient of a CIHR Doctoral Research Award. This 3-year award is worth $30,000 per year plus a research allowance of $5,000 per year.
- Congratulations to Dr. Shyh-Dar Li for being featured in Science in the City: https://scienceinthecity.com/2017/06/06/selective-targeting-and-therapy-of-metastatic-and-multidrug-resistant-tumors-using-a-long-circulating-podophyllotoxin-nanoparticle/
- Congratulations to Wei-lun Tang, a graduate student in Dr. Shyh-Dar Li’s lab. He is the selected recipient of the AAPS UBC Student Chapter Travel Award (Value: $300) for the 2017 AAPS National Biotechnology in San Diego from May 1-3, where he will be presenting a poster on “Development of the Solvent-Assisted Active Loading Technology (SALT) to Formulate Poorly Water Soluble Drugs into Liposomes for Improved Delivery”.
- Wei-Lun Tang received the 2017 AAPS Travelship to attend the 2017 AAPS National Biotechnology Conference ($500 USD) .
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li received Canada Foundation for Innovation and BC Knowledge Development Fund (total $250,000) for establishing a pilot suite for nanomedicine scale-up manufacturing.
- Congratulations to Dr. Nobuhito Hamano for receiving Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 ($34,000).
- Congratulations to Wei-Lun Tang for receiving the 2016-17 Douglas and Jean Bailey Scholarship.
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li received a grant from the Canadian Foundation of Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund ($125,000).
- Congratulations to Jessie Zhang for receiving the 2016 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Summer Research Poster Award.
- Congratulations to Yucheng (Rita) Zhao for successfully defending her MSc thesis on Sep 13, 2016.
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li received a project grant from CIHR (2016-2019): Development of child-friendly oral formulations for drugs used in the maintenance therapy of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia ($344,025).
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li received the 2nd Year Pharmacy Student Teaching Award (June 2016).
- Dr. Shyh-Dar Li received Angiotech Professorship in Drug Delivery (2016-2021).
- Wei-Lun Tang received the 2016-2017 Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF).
- Wei-Lun Tang received ADRGS Travel Award ($500) (2016).