NIGIL News

• November 2025:  BME Postdoctoral Researchers Sinha and Boovarahan win Professional Development Awards from MCW's Office of Postdoctoral Education.
• January 2025: Drs. Amit Joshi and Sayantan Sinha have received a $50K seed grant from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment for their project titled “Au-Phagic Nanozyme for Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Targeted Therapy.”

• November 2024: Summer Medical Students, Wesley Glime and Clayton Lundberg, Win Awards at CTSI Poster Session
• October 2024: Dr. Sayantan Sinha wins J.C. Bose Award for novel Glaser Coupling methodology
• July 2024: Dr. Amit Joshi has received a $250K award from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment for his project titled “Photo-Triggered Trojan-Horse Drug Delivery for MPNST Tumor Cell Death and Macrophage Reprogramming,” in collaboration with fellow MCW faculty members: Drs. Daochun Sun, Benjamin Gantner, and Donald Basel.
• July 2024: Dr. Amit Joshi has received a seed grant from the Office of Global Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin for the project, "From Farm to Clinic: Silk Nanoparticles for Multimodal Imaging and Therapy of Breast Cancer," in collaboration with Dr. Sharad Gupta from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India.

• July 2023: PhD student Shayan Shafiee recognized for his Outstanding Abstract at ISOM 2023

• Dec. 2022: Dr. Amit Joshi and graduate student Shayan Shafiee takes runner up in Marquette's Picture This photo contest.
• Sept. 2022: Dr. Amit Joshi has received a 5-year, $1,784,250 award from the National Institutes of Health for the project, "Leveraging genetic mapping for personalized targeting of breast cancer microenvironment," in collaboration with Drs. Anjishnu Banerjee, Benjamin Gantner, Aron Geurts, John Langenheim, Peter LaViolette, Hallgeir Rui from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
• Sept. 2022: Dr. Amit Joshi has received a shared equipment grant for the purchase of an IVIS Spectrum Imager for the Medical College of Wisconsin, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
• May 2022:  Dr. Joshi's newly patented cationic liposomal nanoparticle seeks to make eustachian tube placement and oral antibiotic administration for pediatric otitis media patients a thing of the past. 

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• Dec 2020:  Dr. Joshi named Vice Chair of Research and Clinical Affairs in the Marquette-Medical College of Wisconsin Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. 
• Aug 2020:  Dr. Sharma selected for Young Investigator Travel Award for her contribution, Endothelial Dii4-Notch Signaling in Breast Tumor Microenvironment Influences Response to Photothermal Therapy, at the 6th annual Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting held in Kansas City. 
• June 2019: Dr. Gayatri Sharma was awarded the young investigator travel award and invited as a session moderator to the International Society of Otitis Media meeting in Hollywood, CA.
• 2019: Dr. Amit Joshi was invited to deliver a talk on the impact of germline genes in the tumor microenvironment on breast cancer response to photothermal therapy, SPIE Photonics West, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
• 2018: Recent BME graduate Christopher Hansen was awarded a prize for his oral presentation at the Rocky Mountain Biomedical Engineering Symposium held in Milwaukee, WI,  2018.