Piyush Jain wins “Best Poster” in the Medicinal and Biological Sciences division of the UMKC Health Science Research Summit, held April 20th, 2011.

Prof. Friedman wins “Teacher of the Year” awarded by the Class of 2014 for the 2010-2011 school year.

Dipu Karunakaran wins UMKC AAPS student chapter Best Seminar Award Spring 2010

Nitin Jain wins UMKC AAPS student chapter Best Seminar Award Fall 2009

Rajoshi Chaudhuri wins UMKC AAPS student chapter Best Seminar Award Spring 2009

Piyush Jain wins Travel Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry to attend the 2010 ACS Meeting.

Patterning of gene expression using LARI published in

Journal of the American Chemical Society, January of 2011

Piyush Jain awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the UMKC School of Graduate Studies

Publication featured on the cover of Nucleic Acids Research, July of 2009.

“Enhanced Light-Activated RNA Interference Using Phosphorothioate Based dsRNA Precursors of siRNA” published in Pharmaceutical Research in July of 2011.

Friedman Lab awarded NSF Grant on “Chemical Methods to Control RNA Interference With Light” in  July of 2011.

Prof. Friedman wins “Teacher of the Year” awarded by the Class of 2015 for the 2011-2012 school year.

Piyush Jain wins 2011-2012 UMKC Dissertation Fellowship

“The Inhibition of Therapeutically Important Polymerases With High Affinity Bis-Intercalator” published in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters in July 2012

Piyush Jain wins Best Poster Award at the 2012 UMKC Health Sciences Student Research Summit

“The Four Worlds of Carbon” published in Nature Chemistry in May 2012

“Construction of a Photoactivated Insulin Depot” published in Angewandte Chemie (featured on Frontispiece) in January 2013

“Patterning of Cells Through the Patterning of Biology” published in the Emerging Investigators issue of Molecular Biosystems in 2014

“The Synthesis of Tetra-modified RNA for the Multidimensional Control of Gene Expression via Light-activated RNA Interference” published in Nature Protocols in 2014

University of Missouri Fast Track Awarded to Friedman Lab for Proposal: “Building a Better Insulin”  July 2014

NIH NIDDK DP3 Awarded to Friedman Lab for Proposal: “Cannula-free and Pump-free Delivery of Insulin Using Light” August 2015

Ashish Kala awarded ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Award to attend National ACS Meeting 2014

Professor Friedman wins “Teacher of the Year” awarded by the Class of 2017 for the 2013-2014 school year.

NIH NIDDK DP3 Awarded to Friedman Lab for Proposal: “Cannula-free and Pump-free Delivery of Insulin Using Light” August 2015

Professor Friedman awarded the UMKC Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching 2013

Professor Friedman awarded the University of Missouri Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching 2014

First demonstration of in-vivo light controlled insulin release published and featured as an ACS Editors’ Choice.

Sarode, B.R., Kover, K., Tong, P.Y., Zhang,  C., and Friedman, S.H.

Light Control of Insulin Release and Blood Glucose Using an Injectable Photoactivated Depot Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2016

Our new strategy for cyclic peptide scaffolds published: 

Jain, N., Friedman, S.H. A Tetra-Orthogonal Strategy for the Efficient Synthesis of Scaffolds Based on Cyclic Peptides published in  International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2017

Our work on light control of isoelectric point and solubility published in JACS: Nadendla, K., Friedman, S.H.  Light Control of Protein Solubility Through Isoelectric Point Modulation J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017

Prof. Friedman awarded UMKC’s top research awards, the Trustee Faculty Fellowship Award for Research and the NT Veatch award September 2017

Our article “The ULTIMATE Reagent: A Universal Photo-Cleavable & Clickable Reagent for the Regiospecific and Reversible End Labeling of Any Nucleic Acid” was published in a special issue on Optogenetics.  It was identified as a VIP (Very Important Paper) and selected to be featured on the cover.  In addition, Faculty of 1000 highlighted it, and it was in the top 5 most downloaded papers in June 2018.

Our work on highly efficient second generation insulin PAD materials published, and featured on the back cover:  Sarode, B., Jain, P.K., Friedman, S.H.   Polymerizing Insulin with Photocleavable Linkers to Make Light-Sensitive Macropolymer Depot Materials

Macromolecular Bioscience, 2016