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Meanwhile, at the Chattaraj Lab...
2026
September 2026
The Chattaraj and Pfister Labs are awarded an NINDS (NIH) R15 award for understanding and treating Blast-induced traumatic brain injury - Congratulations!
Prof. Chattaraj co-organizes and co-leads the 3rd Mechanisms and Barriers in Nanomedicine Conference, in Golden CO. Invited speakers and trainees gathered to share their research on the Biological Protein Corona and general Protein-Material Interactions.
Giang presents her poster at the 3rd Mechanisms and Barriers in Nanomedicine Conference, in Golden CO - she is among a few of a large number of poster presenters selected for student lightning talks!
Eleni joins the lab as our newest PhD student - Welcome!
August 2026
Giang passes her Proposal Defense Exam!
June 2026
Yasmin, Rachna, and Luis pass their Qualifying Exams!
June 2026
Prof. Chattaraj presents the lab's work on ultrasound theranostics, while Giang presents on her work on proteins at the 100th ACS Colloids and Surface Symposium at the University of Delaware.
Karolina joins the lab as an U-RISE scholar to carry out undergrad research on exploiting protein condensates for theranostic applications - Welcome!
May 2026
The Chattaraj Lab is awarded an R21 award from NINDS (NIH) to develop microbubbles for treating neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in pre-clinical rodent models - Congratulations!
Prof. Chattaraj gives an invited talk at CCNY in the Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar series.
Ishaa and Neha win NJIT Summer URI awards, while Varun, Dia, and Elina win HSRI awards for carrying out their research during the summer - congrats!
Roma and Wafiza graduate - congrats and good luck!
April 2026
Varun and Dia join the lab as undergrad researchers - Welcome!
Ishaa, Roma, and Giang present their work at the 2026 Dana Knox Research Showcase at NJIT, and at our department's Annual BME Research Day
Ishaa won the 3rd Place Sodhi Prize in Dana Knox and 1st Place among undergrads presenters at the Research day for her poster - double congrats!
March 2026
The Chattaraj Lab is awarded the American Heart Association Career Development Award to develop ultrasound therapeutics for blunt-force traumatic brain injury for the next 3 years - Congratulations!
2025
December 2025
Giang publishes her first-author paper in ACS Nanoscience Au - Congrats!
Ishaa wins First Place among Honors Summer Research Institute participants for her Poster Presentation in the 2025 Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, organized by the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT. Congrats!
November 2025
Our collaboration with the Miri Lab is now out in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.
Prof. Chattaraj gives an Invited Talk in the Drug and Gene Delivery Session at the AICHE 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston.
October 2025
Giang and Ishaa present their work at the BMES Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Taylor and Ridwan join the lab as new undergrad researchers - welcome!
August 2025
Rachna joins the lab as the newest PhD student - welcome!
June 2025
Prof. Chattaraj presents the lab's work on therapeutic proteins at the ACS Colloids and Surface Symposium at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
May 2025
The Chattaraj Lab is awarded the NEW JERSEY COMMISSION ON BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH (NJCBIR) Pilot Research grant to explore microbubbles as therapeutics for TBI - Congratulations!
Wafiza wins First Place for her Poster Presentation in the 2025 Senior Capstone Reception & Undergraduate Research Symposium, organized by thr BME department at NJIT. Congratulations!
April 2025
Prof. Chattaraj gives an invited talk at Seton Hall University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - https://www.shu.edu/chemistry/rose-mercadante-seminar-series.html
Yasmin and Giang present their work at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) at NYU.
January 2025
Undergraduates Roma Patel, Wendy Pino, and Ishaa Rajeshkannan, as well as MS student Tejal Moon join the lab - Welcome!
2024
November 2024
Prof. Chattaraj presents the lab's work on microbubbles and TBI at the AICHE Annual Meeting.
October 2024
Prof. Chattaraj presents the lab's work on protein therapeutics at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting
September 2024
The Chattaraj Lab, in collaboration with Eunjung Lee's lab at NJIT, is awarded the Translational Science Pilot Awards 2024 by the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS). Congratulations!
Prof. Chattaraj gives an invited seminar at Rutgers-Newark Department of Biology
Yasmin and Giang join the lab as PhD students - welcome!
August 2024
Prof. Chattaraj presents the lab's work at the Drug Carrier Design for Cell and Tissue Specific Delivery Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Portland, ME.
2023
December 2023
Wafiza, Ojasvita, and Kerolos join the lab as undergraduate researchers - welcome!
September 2023
Our lab starts at NJIT! We are located in the GITC and CHEN buildings.