Student name and year at UConn:
May Zhang

Recent accolade:
May’s Honors thesis has been published in Biochemical Pharmacology.

Research focus:
May’s research summarizes the development, growth, and most recent clinical status of small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. View May’s thesis here.

Faculty mentor name and quote:
“May is an exceptional student in the Pharm.D. program with very strong motivation to learn something new,” says Dr. Ziaobo Zhong, May’s faculty research mentor. Dr. Zhong also said May should serve as an example for Pharm.D. students looking to get involved in research during their undergraduate term. After publishing the paper, Dr. Zhong and May have been contacted by Pharmacy Magazine to cite the paper in an upcoming article.