Congrats to our very own Katie Glover, Deepak Mishra, Shilpkala gade, and Lalitkumar Vora on your new review paper in ADDR! We're so proud of this exciting research from our lab. Raj Thakur Queen's University Belfast 🎓 orbital QUB Pharmacy School

Congratulations, Dr Yin Ho So, for successfully passing the Ph.D. viva on the thesis title "Photocrosslinked Sustained Release Biodegradable Preformed Implants For Ocular Drug Delivery." Thanks, Nanasaheb Thorat (PhD) Eneko Larraneta, for examining the candidate and Mei Zhou for chairing.

Big congrats to Dr. Sangdi Wang, who's completed his PhD defense this month at Queen's University Belfast 🎓's QUB Pharmacy School, guided by Prof. Raj Thakur! Many thanks to Sanjiv Sharma for serving as the external examiner and Yiwei Tian as the internal examiner. Thanks, Irina, for chairing.

Don't miss our exciting webinar on "Smart Contact Lenses and Wearable Devices for On-Demand Healthcare Applications" this Friday 12th with Prof. Sei Kwang Hahn POSTECH Controlled Release Society CRS Korea Chapter

Don’t miss this amazing talk on rapidly dissolving bilayer microneedles enabling minimally invasive and efficient protein delivery to the posterior segment of the eye by our Secretary Lalitkumar Vora 📅July 11 at the Ocular Delivery session #CRS2024 Controlled Release Society

Congratulations to our two PhD graduates, Sangdi Wang and Winson Ho, from the Ocular Drug Delivery Lab! 🎉 Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! #PhD #Graduation #OcularDrugDelivery Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora

Focus groups are integral part of CRS if you would like to hear more about the exceptional work of focus groups please come to room Emilia for FG award session starting at 2pm. Controlled Release Society Young Scientist Committee YSC-CRS CRS Oral Delivery Focus Group Great Ocular Drug Delivery Systems Lab, QUB CRS Focus Group - Gene Delivery and Gene Editing CRS Focus Group - Skin and Mucosal Delivery CRS Focus Group-BioEng #CRS2024

Our team presented our recent ocular drug delivery work at Controlled Release Society at Bolonga Italy. Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora Ryan Donnelly

📢Don't miss this amazing opportunity to join the CRS Focus Group - Ocular Delivery Board!! Three positions are available: Academic Representative, Postdoc Representative and Graduate Student Representative. 🗓️Deadline: September 15th, 2024 Controlled Release Society #JoinUs #drugdelivery #ocular

Congratulations to Dr. Shilpkala gade on successfully passing the Ph.D. viva with the thesis titled "Sustained Intrascleral Drug Delivery Using Microneedles". Thanks to Neuroscience_brum Zubair Ahmad and Prof. David Jones for examining the thesis and Dr. Timofey Skvortsov for chairing.

Congratulations to Dr. Febri Annuryanti on successfully defending the Ph.D. viva with the thesis "Development of Precisely Engineered Long-acting Drug Delivery to The Eye". Many thanks to Anant Paradkar, & Ryan Donnelly for examining the thesis and Eneko Larraneta for chairing.

Farewell to B.H. Jaswanth Gowda , our Commonwealth Split-Site Scholar 2023! 🎓 It was a pleasure hosting you at Queen’s University Belfast, and working alongside you has been truly rewarding. Wishing you the best in your future endeavors!

Congratulations to our PhD and Master graduates, Dr. Shilpkala gade, Pinal Sangani, and Ganga arora from the Ocular Drug Delivery Lab! 🎉👏 Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors as you move forward in your careers! Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora QUB Pharmacy School

Greetings from The GODDs Lab! 🎄✨ Wishing you a Merry Christmas and blessed holidays. See you next year with more good news and collaborations! Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora

Team lunch to welcome 2025 from The GODDs Lab! 🎉 Starting the year strong with two publications – one in DDTR and another in International Journal of Pharmaceutics. Many to come this year! Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora QUB Pharmacy School

🗣️ Join us for an exclusive webinar: "Clinical Dosing Strategies for Ocular AAV Gene Therapy" with Prathap Nagaraja Shastri Prathap Nagaraja Shastri, Scientific Director and Group Leader at J&J Johnson & Johnson 📅 Thursday, Feb 13 | 🕙10-11 AM EST 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/j/82506322383?… #GeneTherapy Controlled Release Society

Congrats to Dr Shubham Baviskar 🇮🇳🇬🇧 on passing his PhD viva! Thesis: "Formulation & Microporation Approaches for Enhancing Drug Delivery to the Anterior Segment of the Eye" Thanks to examiners Prof. @Vangala_Venu Prof. @EnekoLarraneta & chair Prof. Tianbao Chen. Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora

Congratulations to our GODDs lab member Katie Glover on successfully completing her PhD viva! Many thanks to the examiners Eoin O'Cearbhaill and David Jones and Chair Alejandro Paredes. Raj Thakur QUB Pharmacy School Lalitkumar Vora

Our PhD student Ge Jiang, is presenting our exciting work on hollow microneedles for targeted scleral ocular drug delivery at #NIBES2025 🎯👁️ Great to see our research showcased! @PharmacyatQUB #NIBES2025 🎉 NIBES Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora

Our newly minted Dr, Katie Glover is presenting her work on finite element modelling of hollow microneedles and biomechanics of Sclera for ocular drug delivery at #NIBES2025 👁️ QUB Pharmacy School NIBES Raj Thakur Lalitkumar Vora