Awards

  • National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Advanced E-Team Grant: “A Novel Hydrogel Microfiber for Small Diameter Vascular Grafts” $19,900; Student Team (Leader: Kartik Trehan, Adviser: Dr. Mao), July 01, 2007 - June 30, 2008.
  • National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Advanced E-Team Grant: “Rotavirus Vaccination via Oral Thin Film Delivery”, $16,000; Student Team (Leader: Christopher Yu, Adviser: Dr. Mao), July 01, 2007 - June 30, 2008.
  • NCIIA BME Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (First Place) Student team: Christopher Yu, Rohan Agrawal, Yang Li, Andrew Liu, Dhanya Rangaraj Adviser: Hai-Quan Mao, July 01, 2007 - June 30, 2008.
  • 2002 Young Investigator Award, National University of Singapore, January 2002, Singapore, 2002 - 2002.
  • Controlled Release Society-Capsugel Award for Outstanding Research in Innovative Aspects of Controlled Drug Release, June 2001, San Diego, CA (Supervising postdoctoral research), 2001 - 2001.
  • Controlled Release Society-Capsugel Award for Outstanding Research in Innovative Aspects of Controlled Drug Release, June 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998 - 1998.
  • Controlled Release Society-Cygnus Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work in Drug Delivery, June 1997, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997 - 1997

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