February 2022
Dr. Tandon was recognized by the 2022 Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop Steering Committee for supporting the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Competition by serving as a competitive judge. Dr. Steven Platts, HRP Chief Scientist at NASA provided a certificate to Dr. Tandon for this recognition.
Dipanwita Mitra has been awarded the American Society for Virology Conference Registration Award for her abstract titled '“Effective targeting of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) essential tegument protein pp150 by peptides”. Her abstract is selected for an oral presentation at the annual ASV meeting in July, 2021.
Dipanwita Mitra presented her research work at the 2020 Glycoscience Center for Excellence Winter Research Symposium.
Our SARS-CoV-2 heparin study is published in Journal of Virology: Effective Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Entry by Heparin and Enoxaparin Derivatives" by Ritesh Tandon, Joshua Sharp, Fuming Zhang, Vitor Pomin, Nicole Ashpole, Dipanwita Mitra, Martin McCandless, Weihua Jin, Hao Liu, Poonam Sharma, and Robert Linhardt. (2020). Journal of Virology (accepted). JVI01987-20. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.08.140236v2
Some of our initial SARS-CoV-2 pseudotyping and serology study is published in Scientific Reports: Ritesh Tandon, Dipanwita Mitra, Poonam Sharma, Stephan J Stray, John T Bates, Gailen D Marshall. (2020). Effective Screening of SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies in Patient Serum using Lentivirus Particles Pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein doi: Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 19076.
Dr. Tandon interviewed with Clincal Trials Arena on his opinion on the Chimerix Phase II/III DSTAT potential in Covid-19 patients.
Dr. Tandon interviewed with NBC news on a very important topic related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and immunology.
Dr. Tandon received a Silver Medallion Award for Excellence in Research by UMMC.
https://www.umc.edu/news/News_Articles/2020/10/Excellence-In-Research-Awards.html
Dr. Tandon interviewed with the local NPR station: Mississippi Public Broadcasting about the heparin nasal spray that is being developed in collaboration with Joshua Sharp at Ole Miss. Fast forward to 11.25 min to listen to the story.
A collaborative study with Linhardt Lab is published in Int J Biol Macromol.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32979436/
Dr. Tandon co-wrote a review on Diabetes and COVID-19 risk.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpheart.00489.2020
A collaborative study is published in RSC Advances.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/RA/D0RA06148D#!divAbstract
A collaborative study is published in Molecular Systems and Design Engineering.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ME/D0ME00025F#!divAbstract
Dr. Tandon published an Editorial on the topic of Herpesvirus Maturation
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00657/full
A collaborative study on HCMV entry is published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/5/1676
Dr. Tandon is elected the co-Chair for the Health Science Division at Mississippi Academy of Sciences https://msacad.org/division-heads
Dipanwita Mitra, a graduate student in the lab was invited to give an oral presentation of her work at Mississippi Academy of Sciences Meeting in Biloxi, MS https://msacad.org
Jeff Caliedo, a base pair student in the lab and a senior at Murrah High, is offered full scholarship to attend Yale University starting 2020.
Dr. Tandon is the session chair and invited speaker at the Virology session, Annual meeting of South-Central Branch of American Society for Microbiology, Nov 1-2, Oxford, MS.
Dr. Tandon is the principal investigator on a new NASA study investigating the Effect of space radiation on cytomegalovirus reactivation and lytic replication.
Read more about this project here: https://go.nasa.gov/38v54oH
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Session on Structure, Assembly & Entry at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Knoxville, TN
Dr. Tandon is elected as Vice-Co-Chair, Health Science Division, Mississippi Academy of Sciences.
A collaborative study with Jackson State University is published in 'Journal of Organic Chemistry'
Part of Hasan's doctoral work is published in 'Journal of Virology'
A collaborative study with Jackson State University is published in 'Scientific Reports'
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Betaherpesviruses Satellite Workshop at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Tandon is selected a 'Fellow of American Heart Association'. Read more about this fellowship here: https://bit.ly/36rtgXa
Madeline Archer's work in the lab is published in 'Scientific Reports'
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Betaherpesviruses Satellite Workshop at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Madison, WI