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LinkedIn Highlight Shoutouts:
2025 - 2026 CRS President María Jesús Vicent Docón awarded by King Felipe VI of Spain. Read all about it in Spanish here and in English (AI translation) here. View more photos here. 
CRS Member Raymond Schiffelers: The title of doctor honoris causa has been conferred to Gert Storm by Semmlweis University for his lifelong leadership in nanomedine innovation and generous collegiality and mentorship. Read more. 
CRS Member Twan Lammers: Awarding of the 2025 Friedrich-Wilhelm-Prizes, recognizing the best PhD and MSc theses at RWCH Aachen University. Congrats Anshuman Dasgupta. Read more.
CRS Member Roy van der Meel: mRNA Health Meeting in Berlin. Read more.
Congratulations to CRS members, Justin Hanes, former CRS President (2019-2020), and Lisa Brannon-Peppas, former CRS treasurer (1996-1998) on being elected into the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2025!
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Scientific Excellence of Michael J. Rathbone, Ph.D.
CRS immediate past president Justin Hanes, PhD announced that the mucus penetrating nanoparticles technology developed in his lab at Johns Hopkins University was approved by the FDA for use with prescription therapy for a new dry eye disease treatment. Dry eye disease affects 33 million people and this new drug, developed by Kala Pharmaceuticals, will help to treat those suffering.
