{"id":112558,"date":"2023-04-18T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=112558"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:43:29","slug":"xiaodan-qin-phd-receives-warren-alpert-distinguished-scholar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/04\/18\/xiaodan-qin-phd-receives-warren-alpert-distinguished-scholar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaodan Qin, PhD, Receives Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/04\/Xiaodan-Qin.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Xiaodan Qin\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-112559\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Xiaodan.Qin\">Xiaodan Qin<\/a>, PhD, a research scientist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zgct\/\">Feng Lab<\/a> in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology &amp; Biophysics, has been awarded a $400,000 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warrenalpertfoundation.org\/\">The Warren Alpert Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program supports postdoctoral researchers advancing to a full-time faculty member and assists in developing a laboratory program that will lead to independent funding. With this award, Qin will study neuroblastoma, a common extracranial solid tumor that is responsible for about 15% of cancer-related deaths in children. Specifically, she will use the zebrafish model to identify the molecular underpinnings promoting tumor immunosuppression and to evaluate their suitability as novel therapeutic targets.<\/p>\n<p>Qin hopes to test currently available antibodies as more effective treatments with fewer toxicities for children with neuroblastoma, and potentially other types of neuronal cancers. Her long-term research goals focus on the elucidation of molecular mechanisms through which tumor cells escape immunosurveillance, and the development of an effective immunotherapeutic for cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this award, Qin will study neuroblastoma, a common extracranial solid tumor that is responsible for about 15% of cancer-related deaths in children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,146,91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=112558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112560,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112558\/revisions\/112560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}