Researcher Stories
Get to know the PhRMA Foundation’s award recipients.
Eavesdropping on the Brain to Map the Biology of Addiction
Dr. Dakota Brockway, a postdoctoral trainee at the University of Pittsburgh, aims to map brain circuits to understand how alcohol hijacks them to design better treatments.
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Tailoring Nanoparticles for Better Cancer Treatment
Kenneth Hulugalla, a PhD candidate at the University of Mississippi, is studying how proteins in a patient’s blood interact with nanoparticle drug carriers and influence whether therapies reach cancer tumors.
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Combining Strategies to Stop Cancer Growth
Masuda Akther, a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, is developing a combination therapy designed to target two vulnerabilities of cancer cells.
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Abigail Schwarz, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is researching a psychedelic-like compound for the treatment of chronic pain and opioid use disorder.
Awardee Spotlight
Bojing Jiang, MS, MPhil
- Washington University in St. Louis
“Support from the PhRMA Foundation empowers me to develop precise and safe peptide-based delivery platforms that activate tumor immunity, reduce systemic toxicity, and translate fundamental engineering innovations into clinically impactful cancer immunotherapies.”
Designing a ‘Superhero Bacteria’ to Relieve Gut Stress
Gracelyn Richmond, a fifth-year PhD candidate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, aims to create therapeutic products that could improve gastrointestinal symptoms by leveraging bacterial interactions in the gut microbiome.