{"id":59009,"date":"2018-06-18T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=59009"},"modified":"2018-06-21T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:10:03","slug":"busm-graduate-devastated-by-als-trying-to-save-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2018\/06\/18\/busm-graduate-devastated-by-als-trying-to-save-others\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Graduate Devastated by ALS, Trying to Save Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half ago, BUSM graduate Dr. Rahul Desikan\u2019s future seemed boundless. His work at BU led to the use of the Desikan-Killiany atlas by researchers around the world to study various portions of the brain on MRI. He had just begun the biggest study ever of the genetics of ALS, the disease made famous by Lou Gehrig and Stephen Hawking. Then he was diagnosed with ALS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/national\/wp\/2018\/06\/13\/feature\/devastated-by-als-trying-to-save-others\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.e89149373f33\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/COM-Devestated-by-ALS-e1529340302707.jpg\" alt=\"COM ALS\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59047\" width=\"447\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read his story and learn how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donorscure.org\/project\/project\/?projectid=201b7e93-66d8-44a4-a1bc-a7e0014afd47\">donate<\/a> to help Dr. Desikan continue his research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With his voice silenced and body ravaged, Rahul Desikan\u2019s research gives him a \u2018reason to live.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59009"}],"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=59009"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59009\/revisions\/59181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}