{"id":229642,"date":"2025-05-01T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=229642"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:44:28","slug":"raman-bahal-receives-the-school-of-pharmacy-2025-faculty-research-advising-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/05\/raman-bahal-receives-the-school-of-pharmacy-2025-faculty-research-advising-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Raman Bahal Receives the School of Pharmacy 2025 Faculty Research Advising Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raman Bahal, Associate Professor of Pharmacy, earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University before receiving post-doctoral training at Yale. After pursuing his interests in pharmaceuticals and physical sciences, Bahal took his versatile knowledge and passion for interdisciplinary sciences to UConn in 2017 as an assistant professor. He went on to apply ambitiously for the role of associate professor a year early, eager to take on more responsibility.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During his time at UConn, Bahal has excelled in multiple areas, but prides himself on his students and research: \u201cMy students are my accomplishment.\u201d Combining his passion for research and his love for mentoring students throughout their academic journey, Bahal has worked with undergraduate and graduate students in many capacities. The mentorship provided by Bahal has transformed into life-changing results when just last year Bahal and his team launched a startup \u2013 called Zeal Therapeutics \u2013 to develop a promising drug delivery system to target the kidneys. Bahal is also passionate about therapeutic application, working with a team of faculty and students targeting genomic DNA and RNA to fight cancer cells.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Bahal has explored other research interests throughout various publications.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, as long as my students are happy, learning, and progressing \u2013 this is what matters.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to his research, Bahal has also taken on leadership roles within the School, including serving on the PTR Chair Committee last year, where he helped guide decisions on the promotion, tenure, and reappointments of faculty members.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Headshot of Raman Bahal (UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bahal is honored to receive the <\/span>Faculty Research Advising Award<\/span> and hopes to inspire the next generation of scientists with his mentorship: “Some of the students I\u2019ve worked with have been published as coauthors of our papers \u2013 they are strong contributors.\u201d Looking to the future, Bahal wants to continue his mentorship journey. Passionate about building relationships between undergraduate students, Pharm.D. students, Ph.D. students, and postdocs, Bahal wants to be the bridge for relationships forged within the School. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bahal also has an interest in working with students in middle and high school and finding ways to encourage STEM programs within these environments. Hosting events for younger students to visit the UConn labs and be inspired to forge their own paths in the STEM and pharmaceutical fields, Bahal hopes to create symposiums and other events to build connections between high school students and university-level students. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Motivated to inspire the next generation of scientists, Bahal truly embodies both the research and advising components of his award. This recognition, which Bahal attributes to UConn\u2019s continuous support, has motivated him to look for even more ways to serve the pharmaceutical industry through his research and UConn Pharmacy through his mentorship.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really like mentoring. That\u2019s my passion.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bahal will receive his award during commencement weekend in May.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Faculty Research Advising award is presented annually to a full-time faculty member who has excelled as an advisor for undergraduate or Pharm.D. students performing research in the School. This year, the recipient of the distinguished award is Raman Bahal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":229645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2644],"class_list":["post-229642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 20:51:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229642"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243051,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229642\/revisions\/243051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/229645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229642"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=229642"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=229642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}