{"id":32348,"date":"2016-04-27T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=32348"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:47:13","slug":"ravid-receives-fulbright-scholar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/04\/27\/ravid-receives-fulbright-scholar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravid Receives Fulbright Scholar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27398\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/01\/COM-Ravid_Katya.jpg\" alt=\"Katya Ravid\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2016\/01\/COM-Ravid_Katya.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2016\/01\/COM-Ravid_Katya-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katya Ravid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Katya Ravid, DSc, professor of medicine and biochemistry, recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to France. She is the first to receive this honor in biomedical research at BU.<\/p>\n<p>A Fulbright Scholar Award is one of the highest honors the federal government gives with regard to scholarship and international exchange. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.<\/p>\n<p>Ravid will be leading innovative interdisciplinary research in hematopoiesis\u00a0and megakaryocte\/platelet biomedical research. She will serve as advisor to ongoing institutional interdisciplinary programs at the\u00a0Biology and Pharmacology of Blood Platelet Institute within the University of Strasbourg and INSERM (French Institute of Health and Medical Research) France.<\/p>\n<p>Ravid is the founding director of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and BU\u2019s Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of several awards including the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, the University of Sidney International Scholarship Award, the Weizmann Institute Professorship Visiting Award, the Robert Dawson Evans Teaching Award and the Educator of the Year Award in Graduate Medical Sciences at BUSM.<\/p>\n<p>She is the chair of the Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Scientific Committee at the American Society of Hematology, past chair of a Gordon Research Conference on the <em>Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets<\/em> and member or chair of several national and international research planning or review committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Katya Ravid, DSc, professor of medicine and biochemistry, is the first to receive this honor in biomedical research at BU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348"}],"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=32348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32349,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32348\/revisions\/32349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}