{"id":156745,"date":"2019-12-02T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=156745"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:17:33","slug":"ph-d-candidate-anand-gupta-wins-2019-ipec-americas-foundation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/12\/ph-d-candidate-anand-gupta-wins-2019-ipec-americas-foundation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. candidate \u00c3nand Gupta wins 2019 IPEC Americas Foundation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3nand Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Diane Burgess\u2019 laboratory, was recently awarded a 2019 International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation (IPEC) award for graduate students.\u00a0He was one of five Ph.D candidates nationally to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>The award was presented during the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists conference in San Antonio on November 3, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pharmaceutical industry is notoriously wasteful,\u00a0says Gupta. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradeandindustrydev.com\/industry\/bio-pharmaceuticals\/how-continuous-processing-impacting-us-drug-manufa-13749\"><em>Trade and Industry Development<\/em><\/a> suggests that the losses run to $50 billion annually due to inefficient manufacturing processes. This especially adds to the cost of already extremely expensive anti-cancer drug products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To mitigate this, Gupta worked on developing and building a continuous processing platform to produce polymeric nanoparticles. Robust paclitaxel- loaded polymeric nanoparticles were developed through investigation of the raw materials and processing factors that govern the critical quality aspects of the final drug product. This process, put most simply, reduces wasted material.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156732\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-156732 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Winners-of-IPEC-Foundation-2019-Graduate-Student-Award-Anand-Gupta_Yiwang-Guo_Dana-Moseson_Siddhi-Santosh-Hate_Pavan-Kumar-Nukula-20191103_DSC06566-630x354.jpg 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/360;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The five winners of the 2019 IPEC Americas Foundation Graduate Student Award. \u00c3nand Gupta stands far left. (photo courtesy IPEC Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council of the Americas Foundation \u201csponsors up to five annual scholarships annually to acknowledge excellence in research conducted at graduate level in the field of excipients. The scholarships focus on recent significant contributions to formulation science and technology through innovative research with excipients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IPEC -Americas Foundation is the charitable arm of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3nand Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Diane Burgess\u2019 laboratory, was recently awarded a 2019 International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation (IPEC) award for graduate students.\u00a0He was one of five Ph.D candidates nationally to receive the award. 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