Accolades
August 2022
Dr. Tandon was invited to present at "Take 5 for Research" event at University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. MS
July 2022
Poonam Sharma received the invitation for an oral presentation at the American Society for Virology Meeting in Madison, WI. The title of her talk is "Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan-Hu-1 Strain and Delta Variant (B.1.617.2) by Marine Sulfated Glycans."
June 2022
Poonam Sharma received the MOBILion Systems Travel award for her oral presentation titled "Glycosaminoglycan Based Broad Spectrum Inhibitors of Respiratory Infections" at the Mid-South Glycoscience Meeting in Oxford, MS.
May 2022
Dipanwita Mitra received the Regions Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the School of Graduate Studies in Health Sciences at UMMC, one of the highest honors conferred to a graduating Ph.D. student.
March 2022
Poonam Sharma received the award for her oral presentation titled "Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan Strain and Delta Variant Entry into the Host Cells Using Human Host Defense Peptides Conjugated Graphene Quantum Dots" at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences Meeting in Biloxi, MS.
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.
April 2021
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.
November 2020
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.
October 2020
Dr. Tandon interviewed with NBC news on a very important topic related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and immunology.
September 2020
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
July 2020
A collaborative study is published in RSC Advances.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/RA/D0RA06148D#!divAbstract
May 2020
A collaborative study is published in Molecular Systems and Design Engineering.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ME/D0ME00025F#!divAbstract
April 2020
Dr. Tandon published an Editorial on the topic of Herpesvirus Maturation
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00657/full
February 2020
A collaborative study on HCMV entry is published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/5/1676
February 2020
Dr. Tandon is elected the co-Chair for the Health Science Division at Mississippi Academy of Sciences https://msacad.org/division-heads
February 2020
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
December 2019
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.
November 2019
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.
September 2019
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
July 2019
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Session on Structure, Assembly & Entry at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Knoxville, TN
June 2019
Dr. Tandon is elected as Vice-Co-Chair, Health Science Division, Mississippi Academy of Sciences.
June 2019
A collaborative study with Jackson State University is published in 'Journal of Organic Chemistry'
December 2018
Part of Hasan's doctoral work is published in 'Journal of Virology'
January 2018
A collaborative study with Jackson State University is published in 'Scientific Reports'
July 2017
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Betaherpesviruses Satellite Workshop at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Ghent, Belgium
June 2017
Dr. Tandon is selected a 'Fellow of American Heart Association'. Read more about this fellowship here: https://bit.ly/36rtgXa
April 2017
Madeline Archer's work in the lab is published in 'Scientific Reports'
July 2016
Dr. Tandon is Co-Chair for the Betaherpesviruses Satellite Workshop at International Herpesvirus Workshop, Madison, WI