Researcher Stories
Get to know the PhRMA Foundation’s award recipients.
A Recipe for Better Drug Delivery Inside the Body
Dr. Lining Zheng, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, is researching how proteins in our bodies interact with nanoparticles that carry drugs to specific cells to understand why some drug delivery approaches work better than others.
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Optimizing Heart Health Through a Pharmacist-Led Digital Program
Dr. Yuling Chen of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is developing and testing a digital program that connects patients with pharmacists to guide better decisions to improve their heart health.
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A New Immunotherapy Approach Targeting Lipids Instead of Proteins
Amandip Bangar, an MD-PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, aims to develop new therapies for acute myeloid leukemia that target lipid molecules instead of proteins.
Read MoreSearching for Shapes and Cancer Clues Under the Microscope
Chaithanya Vedula, a PhD candidate at Boston University, is studying how to overcome cancer resistance to a promising therapeutic target.
Awardee Spotlight
Anastasiia Vasylaki
- City College of New York
“I am very honored to receive the PhRMA Foundation Fellowship. This award reaffirms my confidence that our research on kidney-targeting nanomedicines is moving in the right direction, and we are on track to develop novel kidney disease therapies.”
From Childhood Experiments to Preventing Deadly Heart Rhythms
Hilda Jafarah, a third-year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, is exploring how to prevent life-threatening irregular heartbeats that can occur in the days following a heart attack.