
Physics PhD graduate Yusuf Olatubnji won gold medal and first-place prize for his work on ‘Novel Nanoparticles for Targeting and Imaging of Cancer Cells’, at the fourth Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition organized during the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting.
Yusuf is a recipient of several awards including the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student, Khalifa University, the 2023 Best Presentation Award, 8th Annual Radiology Meeting (ARM), World Trade Center Dubai, UAE, the 2023 Best Abstract Submission Award, second Middle East Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (MESTRO), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the 2023 Best Poster Paper Presentation (Physics), UAE Graduate Student Research Conference, Abu Dhabi.