{"id":133598,"date":"2025-04-03T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=133598"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:11:56","slug":"the-impact-of-early-research-advancing-knowledge-at-bu-chobanian-avedisian-school-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2025\/the-impact-of-early-research-advancing-knowledge-at-bu-chobanian-avedisian-school-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Student Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Minali Prasad<\/a>, Class of 2025, has embraced a wide range of research opportunities during her time at BU. She began her journey in Dr. Andrew Taylor<\/a>\u2019s ocular immunology lab, where she gained valuable hands-on experience with techniques such as mouse eye dissections, gel electrophoresis, and Western blotting. Following the COVID-19 shutdown, Minali transitioned to clinical research under the mentorship of Dr. Manju Subramanian<\/a>, a surgical retina specialist at Boston Medical Center. Her work has spanned diverse topics, including retinal disease management, the ocular effects of systemic conditions, and disparities in ophthalmic health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a> about Minali\u2019s research year program  through the NIH Medical Research Scholars Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early research experience at the School enabled Minali to spend a year in research program at NIH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":133879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[457],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[385],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[390],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/133598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/133598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/133598\/revisions\/133886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=133598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}