Department News
Priyabrata “Priyo” Mukherjee, PhD, To Become Chair-Elect of AIMBE’s College of Fellows
Dr. Priyo Mukherjee, professor of pathology, has been selected as the incoming chair-elect of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is Senior Director for Research Collaborations and Partnerships at the Stephenson Cancer Center and also co-directs the Stephenson's Nanomedicine Program.
A pioneer in nanoengineering and cancer biology, Dr. Mukherjee holds the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Endowed Chair in Laboratory Cancer Research and is a Presbyterian Health Foundation Presidential Professor. He is also a Research Scholar of Oklahoma's Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET). In 2024, Dr. Mukherjee received the George Lynn Cross Research Professorship, the University of Oklahoma’s highest research honor.
Dr. Mukherjee is an elected fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the Controlled Release Society, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
posted April 8, 2025
Trainees Win at 50th GREAT Symposium
(Graduate Research Education and Technology)
Shriya Pandey was awarded the Graduate Student Association Award for Scientific Achievement for Excellence in Research Communication for her abstract titled "Overcoming RET Kinase Inhibitor-induced feedback RET Overexpression with Proteolysis Targeting Chimera (PROTAC)".
(Shriya's mentor is Dr. Jie Wu.)
Postdoctoral fellow Nisha Thomas, PhD, received the Graduate College Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research for excellence in research communication for her study in patients with breast cancer linking tamoxifen to the risk of diabetes. Dr. Thomas was also recognized for her receipt of an independent fellowship award—a Harold Hamm Diabetes Center Novel Pilot Project Grant for Post-Docs—from 2023 to 2025. (Nisha's mentor is Dr. Elizabeth Wellberg.)
Joshua Seaberg won the ARL Biopharma Research Award for his work on the delivery of RNA therapeutics using engineered nanoparticles. (Josh’s mentor is Dr. Priyabrata Mukherjee)
posted April 8, 2025