Pharmaceutical Particle Engineering & Delivery Laboratory

10/1/2025 Our group successfully hosted 2025 Workshop on Inhalation Products and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. This workshop attracted 17 top experts and more than 70 attendees from 6 countries and 25 institutions/companies.  More information about this workshop can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/2025inhalationworkshop/home. 

7/1/2025 Dr Tony Zhou is promoted to Jack and Barbara McCoy Full Professor. 

04/19/2025 Congratulations to Shruti Sawant for winning the "Ted Martonen Student award" from the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM). At each ISAM congress, the board recognizes a Master, Ph.D. or M.D. student who has conducted outstanding, independent research in the field of aerosols in medicine. This is a great honor and true reward of her hard work!  

04/13/2025 Congratulations to Vaibhav for his article "Powder aerosol formulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage for pulmonary delivery" accepted by International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 

03/31/2025  Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for her successful defense of PhD thesis! It is a huge achievement and a major milestone for her career. She has started as a Scientist at Alexion/AstraZeneca even prior to her defense!

02/25/2025 Congratulations to Yijing Huang for her article "Particle surface coating for dry powder inhaler formulations" accepted by Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17425247.2025.2482052#abstract

02/27/2025 Congratulations to Shruti Sawant for her article "Development of inhalable bacteriophage liposomes against Pseudomonas aeruginosa" accepted by Pharmaceutics journal. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17/4/405

02/05/2025 Congratulations to Yijing Huang that her article "Impact of Co-Spray Drying with Leucine or Trileucine on Aerosol Performance, In Vitro Dissolution, and Cellular Uptake of Colistin Powder Formulations for Inhalation" is accepted for publication by the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17/2/199

12/13/2024 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte that her article "Recent Advances in Drying and Development of Solid Formulations for Stable mRNA and siRNA Lipid Nanoparticles" is accepted for publication by the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022354924006063

11/20/2024 Congratulations to Chanakya that his article "Effects of buffers on spray-freeze-dried/lyophilized high concentration protein formulations" is accepted for publication by the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378517324012080

11/18/2024 Congratulations to Yijing Huang being awarded the "PI4D Catalyst Award" by Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease (PI4D). 

11/06/2024 Congratulations to Shruti Sawant being awarded the "Best Poster Award" at Purdue College of Pharmacy Research Day. 

08/22/2024 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for be awarded the Excipient Graduate Student Award from the International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) of the Americas Foundation.

08/15/2024 Prof. Zhou is elected as a Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). 

07/12/2024 Prof. Zhou becomes a named professor, Jack and Barbara McCoy Associate Professor in Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics. 

07/08/2024 Congratulations to Vaibhav for passing his oral preliminary exam. It is a true milestone to his PhD degree.

07/02/2024 Congratulations to Vaibhav for his review paper "Formulation of Bacteriophage for Inhalation to Treat Multidrug-resistant Pulmonary Infections" being accepted in KONA Powder and Particle Journal (IF 4.1).

06/10/2024 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for passing her oral preliminary exam. It is a true milestone to her PhD degree. 

05/24/2024 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for Winning a travel grant of $1,000 and the Best Poster Award from AAPS. 

05/16/2024 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for Winning the  the Peter R. Byron Graduate Student Award at 2024 Respiratory Drug Delivery conference!

05/13/2024 Prof. Tony Zhou was selected as the Editorial Board Member of Pharmaceutics Journal (Impact Factor 5.4). 

03/04/2024 Congratulations to Maizbha for his research paper "Tobramycin reduces pulmonary toxicity of polymyxin B via inhibiting the megalin-mediated drug uptake in the human lung epithelial cells" being accepted in Pharmaceutics.

02/01/2024 Our group received a five-year R01 grant with $2.4M funding from NIH/NHLBI. Prof Zhou is the contact PD/PI of this multi-national research project with a title "Aerosol delivery of combinational therapeutics targeting deadly lung infections". https://www.imph.purdue.edu/news/2024/03/01/professor-tony-zhou-awarded-24m-nih-grant-lead-multi-national-team-fighting-global

1/24/2024 Congratulations to Yijing Huang for her research paper "Liposomal formulation reduces transport and cell uptake of colistin in human lung epithelial Calu-3 cell and 3D human lung primary tissue models" being accepted in AAPS PharmSciTech. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1208/s12249-024-02753-6

12/8/2023 Congratulations to Kinnari Arte for her research paper "Understanding the impact of mannitol on physical stability and aerosolization of spray-dried protein powders for inhalation" being accepted in International Journal of Pharmaceutics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378517323011201