{"id":1214,"date":"2025-03-18T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:02:22","slug":"dr-tahira-pirzada-featured-in-nc-state-women-in-innovation-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/news\/2025\/dr-tahira-pirzada-featured-in-nc-state-women-in-innovation-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Tahira Pirzada Featured in NC State Women in Innovation Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"530\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1216\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/2025-Women-in-Innovation_Tahira-Pirzada-square-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"453\">We are proud to share that Dr. <strong data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"220\">Tahira Pirzada<\/strong>, Research Associate in the Khan Group and co-founder of <strong data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"299\">Soteria Formulations<\/strong>, was recently featured by NC State\u2019s Office of Research and Innovation in an article celebrating women researchers who have launched successful startups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"836\">In recognition of <strong data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"502\">International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"532\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/strong>, the article highlights four inspiring Wolfpack women who are transforming university research into real-world impact. Tahira shares her path from postdoctoral researcher to startup founder, and her efforts to create biodegradable, plastic-free crop protection technologies through Soteria Formulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1056\">Read the full story here:<br data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"866\">\ud83d\udd17 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/news\/2025\/congratulations-to-tahira-on-winning-first-prize-in-the-venturepack-challenge\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"1056\">Meet Four Wolfpack Women Who\u2019ve Launched Research-based Startups<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1058\" data-end=\"1160\">Congratulations, Tahira. We are excited to celebrate your continued success in sustainable innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to share that Dr. Tahira Pirzada, Research Associate in the Khan Group and co-founder of Soteria Formulations, was recently featured by NC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/khangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}