October, 2024
- Congratulations to Neetu for winning 2nd place - Best Poster Award at Imaging Elevated Symposium 2024!
- Congratulations to Esther for getting the hugely competitive T32 PITCH Chemical Biology Training Grant!
- Dr. Shi received funding from the Breast and Gynecologic Cancers Center to advance our research on radiopharmaceutical therapy. We are grateful for the support!
- Dr. Goel received funding from the Neurologic Cancers Center to initiate a new research direction in pediatric brain tumors. We are excited to start!
- We are excited to welcome our new summer fellows Hadleigh, Kayla, and Aiden to the lab! We look forward to a fun summer.
- We welcome Katrina Le’ to our lab! Katrina is an incoming MD-PhD student and will be rotating in our lab this summer.
- Congratulations to Neetu for winning the prestigious Fox Award after being nominated by her fellow students! Award recipients are selected based not only on academic merit, but also on service to the Department, the University, and to fellow students.
- A big congratulations to Dr. Shi for earning the 2023 Outstanding Editor Award for the Journal of Nanobiotechnology! This is his third year in a row winning the award!
December, 2023
- We welcome Esther Need to our lab! Esther is a first-year graduate student in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
- Ayden Berndt received the UROP Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Spring 2024. Congratulations, Ayden!
- Congratulations to Neetu Singh (1st) and Wenxi Xia (2nd) for taking first and second place in the Imaging Elevated poster competition! They presented their latest research findings and impressed many big names in the imaging field!
- Dr. Goel was honored by the College of Pharmacy for Going the Extra Mile! From taking time to discuss projects and ideas at length to being hands on helping her students learn how perform new experiments, she's one of the best mentors around!
- Congratulations to Dr. Goel for receiving the 2023 Skaggs Scholars Program Award from the ALSAM foundation!
- In collaboration with Dr. Mingnan Chen, Dr. Shi was awarded the 3I Initiative Program Project Planning Grant! We are thrilled to initiate new immunoimaging research on campus with the support of this award.
- Congratulations to Neetu Singh for receiving the 2023 AAPS Best Poster Award at the AAPS PharmSci 360 for her poster "Ultrasmall Nanoprobes for Fluorescence-Guided Surgical Resection of Peritoneally Disseminated Tumors"!
- We welcome Jiemin Huang to our lab! Jiemin is a first-year graduate student in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
- We welcome Matt Goff to our lab! Matt is a first-year graduate student in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
- We welcome Ayden Berndt to our lab! Ayden is a sophomore in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
- Congratulations to Neetu for receiving the Best Abstract and Travel Awards to AAPS PharmSci 360!
- Dr. Goel received Skaggs Scholar Award from the ALSAM Foundation in collaboration with Dr. Dmitri Simberg at CU Anschultz Medical School! We are grateful for the generous support.
- We welcome HCI Pathmaker Scholar, Ali Khalaf.
- We received funding from the University of Utah 1U4U Innovation Funding Initiative in collaboration with Dr. Tara Mastren! We are grateful for the support.
- Dr. Shi received funding from the Research Incentive Seed Grant Program to develop new molecular probes for radiotheranostics. Congratulations!
- Dr. Shi received funding from the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences/UCAIR Seed Grant to develop novel agents for molecular radiotherapy. We look forward to start this exciting project!
- Kylee received the UROP Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Spring 2023. Congratulations, Kylee!
- Dr. Goel was named the Vice President's Clinical and Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholar
- Dr. Shi received the Research Power Pitch Award at Imaging Elevated 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Shi!
- Anderson, Ananya, Kayla and Spencer presented their work in undergraduate summer research symposiums. Go team!
- Dr. Wenxi Xia joins the team as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Dr. Xia!
- Kylee received the UROP Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Fall 2022. Congratulations, Kylee!
- Dr. Goel received the 5 For The Fight Fellowship. We are grateful for the support from the Huntsman Cancer Institute and 5 For The Fight organization for their support towards our research.
In the news: 5 for the Fight announces new class of cancer research fellows. - We are excited to host undergraduate and high school students supported by various University of Utah summer programs: SPUR, HCI Pathmakers Program, and COP Summer Research Program. We're looking forward to a productive and fun summer!
- In collaboration with Dr. Allison Payne, we received funding from the HCI Breast and Gynecologic Cancers Center to develop image guided interventions for improving immunotherapy outcomes in refractory breast cancers. Thank you, HCI!
- Spencer received the UROP Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Summer 2022. Congratulations, Spencer!
- In collaboration with Dr. Allison Payne, we received funding from the HCI Experimental Therapeutics Program to develop optimized therapeutic regimens for refractory breast cancers. Thank you, HCI!
- Dr. Goel was inducted to the Board of Directors at the SNMMI Center for Molecular Innovation and Translation. She looks forward to contributing to the advancement of the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging!
- Spencer presented his research at the 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Go Spencer!
- We received funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research! This generous support from the University of Utah will allow us to bring a novel imaging technology to our campus!
- We welcome Kylee McManus to our lab! Kylee is a Freshman in College of Science and Honors College.
- Spencer received the UROP Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Spring 2022. Congratulations, Spencer!
- We received funding from The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation to develop more effective and safe imaging strategies for pediatric cancers. Thank you Pardee Foundation!
- Shreya was selected to be a SPUR 2022 Mentor! We are looking forward to working with undergraduate students on our cool imaging project.
We welcome Charlie Dean to our lab! Charlie is pursuing BS in Chemistry and BA in English at the University of Utah.
- We welcome Spencer Carstens and Neetu Singh. Spencer is a junior in BME and Neetu is a graduate rotation student in the department of pharmaceutics. Welcome both!
- Dr. Shi and Dr. Goel were invited to serve as Associate Editors of the Journal of Nanobiotechnology (Impact Factor: 10.435)
- The MINILabs are up and running! We are recruiting at multiple levels. Please contact Dr. Shreya Goel to explore exciting research opportunities!
- We received funding from The Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease (3i) Initiative at the University of Utah. Thank you 3i Initiative!
- Dr. Goel was named in the “Ones to Watch for 2021” list by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). The campaign aims to recognize 30 early career researchers with the potential to shape the future of precision medicine across all spectrums of the field.