{"id":5269,"date":"2014-09-18T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:42:40","slug":"pharmacology-student-to-receive-perdana-scholar-award-from-malaysian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2014\/09\/18\/pharmacology-student-to-receive-perdana-scholar-award-from-malaysian-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacology Student to Receive Perdana Scholar Award from Malaysian Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yvette Joon Ying Boon, a Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics doctoral student, has been selected to receive the Perdana Scholar Award by the Education Department of Malaysia for students studying in the United States.\u00a0The goal of the program is to identify, document and promote Malaysian students who have excelled in areas including academics, leadership, sports, entrepreneurship, invention and research. The Prime Minister of Malaysia will present the award Sept. 26 in New York.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Boon graduated from BU College of Arts and Sciences summa cum laude with distinction. She conducts her doctoral research in Dr. Benjamin Wolozin’s laboratory studying the post-transcriptional regulation of Alpha-Synuclein by Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase in Parkinson’s disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cJoon\u2019s selection for this award is a tribute to her many stellar qualities,\u201d says Wolozin, BUSM professor of Pharmacology. \u00a0\u201cJoon is one of those rare scientists who is passionate about science and people. \u00a0Her work on Parkinson\u2019s disease is revealing novel mechanisms through which micro-RNA contribute to the pathophysiology of the disease process. \u00a0At the same time, Joon’s enthusiasm for helping her friends and colleagues benefits everyone around her. Three cheers for Joon!”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0An award winning Taekwondo Master with a fourth-degree Black Belt, Boon coaches the BU Taekwondo Team. She has displayed her artwork and photography during BUSM Art Days, at Graduate Medical Science Art Day and\u00a0in the BUSM literary and arts magazine. Chosen as the recipient of the first Graduate Medical Science Student Organization (GMSSO) Representative Award this year, she served as secretary of the GMSSO for two years and the pharmacology\u00a0representative\u00a0for the past five years. She volunteers in the greater Boston area, including with the Alzheimer’s\u00a0Association,\u00a0teaching Taekwondo and women’s self-defense seminars, and at fundraising events for the China Care Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Yvette Joon Ying Boon, a Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics doctoral student, has been selected to receive the Perdana Scholar Award by the Education Department of Malaysia for students studying in the United States.\u00a0The goal of the program is to identify, document and promote Malaysian students who have excelled in areas including academics, leadership, sports, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269"}],"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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}