{"id":23087,"date":"2015-08-13T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=23087"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:12:34","slug":"busms-lian-studying-drug-to-treat-neuroblastoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/08\/13\/busms-lian-studying-drug-to-treat-neuroblastoma\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM\u2019s Lian Studying Drug to Treat Neuroblastoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23089\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/08\/COM-Lian_Haiwei-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Haiwei Lian\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23089\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2015\/08\/COM-Lian_Haiwei-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2015\/08\/COM-Lian_Haiwei-150x150-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haiwei Lian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Haiwei Lian, MD, a postdoctoral associate at Boston University School of Medicine, was awarded the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stbaldricks.org\/hero-funds\/amandarozman\/\">Amanda Rozman Pediatric Cancer Research Fund<\/a> St. Baldrick\u2019s International Scholar\u201d grant, totaling $330,000. With this funding, Lian and his team hope to determine the effect of a potent drug on treating aggressive neuroblastoma. He is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zgct\/\">Feng Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stbaldricks.org\">St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation<\/a>, a volunteer-powered and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, \u00a0awarded nearly $2 million in grants to Boston area institutions to support research that seeks to find cures and better treatments for pediatric cancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiwei Lian, MD, a postdoctoral associate at BUSM&#8217;s Feng Lab, was awarded a $330,000 grant from St. Baldrick&#8217;s Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,143,90,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087"}],"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=23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23093,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087\/revisions\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}