Antoinette Nelson, a BME Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Antoinette is advised by Professor Patrick J. Sinko and her thesis focuses on the development of a nano-based mucosal pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. Antoinette also recently received her fifth travel award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to attend the American Society for Pharmacology and Emerging Therapeutics National Meeting. At the meeting she won third place in the Dolores C. Shockley Best Presentation Competition for her thesis work.