Recent News
March 2025- Asma is officially a Ph.D. candidate after completing her qualifying presentation over 3D Tumor-Mimicking Phantom Models for Assessing NIR-I/II Nanoparticles in Fluorescence-Guided Surgical Interventions. Good job Asma!
March 2025- Itzel was selected as a LEDA commercialization award finalist for this year’s URC. Great work Itzel!
February 2025- Prof. Srivastava was featured in The Daily Toreador for our AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award- supported research to develop nanosensors for atherosclerosis detection and surgical interventions.
February 2025 - Isabella won the 'Overall Top Winner' award, and Asma won the 'Best Poster' award at the TTU WCOE Research Day 2025, out of 100 poster competitors. Big Congrats!
February 2025 - Asma and Nate’s 3D Tumor-Mimicking Phantoms paper is now live on Biorxiv. Congrats!
February 2025 - The Srivastava Lab will be showcasing some of our ongoing research efforts at the WCOE Research Day! Dr. Srivastava will be giving an oral talk on our protein-coated afterglow nanoparticles and Bella, Asma, and Hasnat will be giving poster talks on their respective research projects.
January 2025 - Kaylee and Nathaniel join the lab as Honor’s College URS Scholars. Elizabeth and Hunter join the lab as Independent Study researchers this semester. Welcome!
November 2024 - The Srivastava Lab is awarded the American Heart Association Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)! ❤️
November 2024 - Asma wins 2nd place at the Biomedical Journal Club, hosted by TTU’s Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Great job Asma!
October 2024 - Prof. Srivastava, Asma, and Isabella attend the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
October 2024 - Asma is awarded the Graduate Student Research Support Award by the College of Engineering. Congrats Asma!
October 2024 - Eli joins the lab as an Honor’s College URS Scholar. Welcome!
September 2024 - Posy, Itzel, and Aarti join the lab as an Honor’s College URS Scholar. Welcome!
September 2024 - Prof. Srivastava was selected in the President’s STEM Mentoring Academy. (Link)
August 2024 - Prof. Srivastava shared the lab’s Afterglow work at the American Chemical Society National Meetings in Denver, CO.
August 2024 - Hasnat joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
August 2024 - Our Afterglow imaging work was highlighted by Texas Tech Now. (Link)
August 2024 - We waved goodbye to our two high school researchers, Hannah and Nevea. (Link)
July 2024 - Isabella and Asma’s abstracts have been accepted for BMES National Meetings in Baltimore, MD in October.
June 2024 - Nate and Ken’s paper on Afterglow imaging probes is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats! (Link)
June 2024 - We welcome two high school researchers, Hannah (Clark Scholar’s program) and Nevea (ERIE Summer Internship program). (Link)
June 2024 - Prof. Srivastava’s collaborative review article with Dr. Tropp’s team on NIR-II imaging for surgical interventions is now published in Advanced Healthcare Materials. (Link)
May 2024 - Kennedy joins the lab as a TrUE Scholar. Welcome!
May 2024 - Asma’s review paper on nanoparticles for theranostic applications is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials. (Link)
May 2024 - Congrats to Nate and Jonathan on commencement. We celebrated their achievement during our lab’s summer party. (Link)
May 2024 - Isabella is awarded the Jeanette and Joe Dennis Endowed Scholarship from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
May 2024 - Asma receives first place at the ME department’s graduate student poster competition and second place at the 2024 Spring BioMed Journal Club.
April 2024 - McKenzie who completed her undergrad. in Cell & Molecular Biology from Tech joins us as a post-baccalaureate researcher.
April 2024 - Isabella, Nate, Ken, and Caitlyn presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Nate and Isabella received the Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award, while Dr. Srivastava was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Mentor award. Nate also earned the LEDA Commercialization award for our 3D Tumor Mimicking Phantom project. (Link)
April 2024 - Prof. Srivastava gave an invited seminar at the Texas Center for Comparative Cancer Research (TC3R) webinar series. Thanks, Prof. Klementina Fon Tacer for the invitation. (Link)
February 2024 - Asma presented her research at the Texas Tech Graduate Student Research Poster Competition.
January 2024 - Prof. Srivastava gave an invited talk in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Texas Tech. Thanks, Prof. Kai Wu for the invitation.
January 2024 - Undergraduate researchers, Caitlyn and Ken join the lab as TrUE Scholars.
November 2023 - Prof. Srivastava gave an invited lightning talk at the One Health Research Club at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Amarillo. Thanks, Profs. Ulrich Bickel and Annelise Nguyen for the invitation. (Link)
November 2023 - Prof. Srivastava gave an invited talk in the Chemistry & Biochemistry department at Texas Tech. Thanks, Prof. Joshua Tropp for the invitation.
November 2023 - Undergraduate researcher, Isabella was selected as an Honors College Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS). Congrats Bella!
October 2023: Prof. Srivastava attended the Biomedical Engineering Society National Meetings in Seattle, WA, and co-moderated the ‘Cancer Mechanobiology’ session in the Cancer Nanotechnologies.
September 2023: The lab welcomes its first PhD student, Asma, and undergraduate researchers, Nate, Jonathan, Isabella, Isaac, Kathryn, Caitlyn, and Hayes. Welcome y’all, we are excited to have you.
September 2023: The Srivastava Lab officially opens up for sciencing.
April 2023: Prof. Srivastava will be joining the Texas Tech Mechanical Engineering department in the Fall of 2023. More updates to follow, including recruitment advertisements for graduate and undergraduate students.