{"id":36727,"date":"2016-08-03T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=36727"},"modified":"2016-08-03T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T19:17:51","slug":"brightfocus-foundation-awards-busm-researchers-450k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/08\/03\/brightfocus-foundation-awards-busm-researchers-450k\/","title":{"rendered":"BrightFocus Foundation Awards BUSM Researchers $450K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36272\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/07\/Tsuneya-Ikezu-e1470251488712.jpg\" alt=\"Tsuneya Ikezu\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36272\" height=\"124\" width=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsuneya Ikezu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36746\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/08\/COM-haiyan_gong.jpg\" alt=\"Haiyan Gong\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36746\" height=\"175\" width=\"125\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haiyan Gong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy &amp;\u00a0 Neurobiology Haiyan Gong, MD, PhD, and \u00a0Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD, professor in the departments of Pharmacology\u00a0&amp; Experimental Therapeutics and Neurology have each received awards from the BrightFocus Foundation.\u00a0 Gong whose research interests include glaucoma, received a $150,000 grant to study various cellular interactions in the eye\u2019s drainage system using newly developed, advanced 3D electron microscopes. Ikezu was awarded $300,000 for his work on the TREM2 molecule in the search for Alzheimer\u2019s disease treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrightFocus is proud to support researchers who are at the forefront of scientific discovery,\u201d said the foundation\u2019s President and CEO Stacy Pagos Haller.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThey are pushing new frontiers of knowledge in their labs and sparking the creativity and innovation that will improve the quality of life for millions around the world.\u201d BrightFocus is a Maryland-based nonprofit that funds research worldwide and provides public awareness for Alzheimer\u2019s, macular degeneration and glaucoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiyan Gong, MD, PhD received a $150,000 award and  Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD received a $300,000 grant.<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727"}],"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=36727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36748,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions\/36748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}