June 30, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Richa Lamichhane for receiving graduate fellowship from the “American College of Toxicology”. The fellowship will provide funds ($5,000 per year for two years) towards completion of graduate dissertation.

June 30, 2022: Congratulations to Drs. Richa Lamichhane and Rahul Kumar for receiving a “Travel Grants” to attend 43rd Annual Meeting of the American College of Toxicology, Denver, Colorado (Nov 13–16, 2022).

May 4, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Patial for receiving “LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award”.

April 22, 2022: Richa Lamichhane received the Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Student “Travel Grant” award for the STP 41st Annual Symposium that is taking place in Austin, Texas (June 19–23, 2022). Congratulations! 

April 22, 2022: Dr. Rahul Kumar received “2nd Place Award in the Graduate Student Category” at the Annual LA Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics” for his poster entitled “Generation of an inducible whole body knockout mice using Rosa-Cre inducible promoter”.

April 22, 2022: Dr. Richa Lamichhane presented at the “9th Annual LA Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics“. Richa’s talk was focussed on understanding the sex-specific differences in the susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using mouse models and was selected among 25 abstracts for platform presentation.

April 27, 2021: Dr. Jian Chen presented at the ASIP Symposium “Pathobiology of Cancer“. His talk was focussed on the role of ZFP36l1 in fibrosis and tumor metastasis.

April 27, 2021: Dr. Richa Lamichhane presented at the ASIP Symposium “Pathobiology of Lung Disease“. Richa’s talk was focussed on understanding the role of myeloid-cell-specific TTP in acute and chronic lung injury.

April 27, 2021: Dr. Patial co-chaired a session, “Pathobiology of Lung Disease” at the Annual ASIP/EB meeting

April 9, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Richa Lamicchane for receiving the ASIP 2021 Trainee Scholar Award. She will receive a certificate and a monetary award at the annual EB 2021 meeting.

April 9, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Jian Chen for receiving the ASIP 2021 Monga-Hans Trainee Scholar Award for Excellence in Neoplasia Research. He will receive a certificate and a monetary award at the annual EB 2021 meeting.

March 24, 2021: Dr. Patial chaired a platform session on “Ozone-induced pulmonary toxicity” at the annual Society of Toxicology Meeting.

March 4, 2021: Dr. Patial was elected as a councilor for the Comparative Toxicology, Pathology, and Veterinary Specialty Section (CTPVSS) of the Society of Toxicology.

Feb 24, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Jian Chen for winning a Second Place in the Post-Doctoral Poster Awards Category during our Annual Phi Zeta Meeting on Feb 24, 2021.

Feb 23, 2021: Dr. Patial is the Vice-President elect of the Tau Chapter of Phi Zeta.

Jan 5, 2021: We welcome new member of our lab, Dr. Rahul Kumar. Rahul joined the CBS graduate program in the Spring of 2021. Welcome Rahul!

Feb 17, 2020: Dr. Patial received the ASIP 2020 Monga-Hans Faculty Scholar Award The award comes with a plaque and monetary support.

Dec 15, 2019: We welcome new member of our lab, Dr. Jian Chen. Welcome Jian!

Aug 15, 2019: We welcome new member of our lab, Dr. Richa Lamichhane. Richa joined the CBS graduate program in the Fall of 2019. Welcome Richa!

Feb 26, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Chandra Bathula for winning Second Place in the Post-Doctoral Poster Awards Category during our Annual Phi Zeta Meeting on Feb 26, 2019.

March 5, 2018: Dr. Patial received AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Award!

Jan 5, 2018: We welcome new member of our lab, Dr. Chandra Bathula. Welcome Chandra!

Oct 30, 2017: Dr. Patial received Early Career Investigator Award at the Hepatobiliary Cancers Conference.