{"id":63583,"date":"2018-11-08T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=63583"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:47:16","slug":"rahul-desikans-story-of-love-science-and-facing-down-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2018\/11\/08\/rahul-desikans-story-of-love-science-and-facing-down-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Desikan\u2019s Story of Love, Science, and Facing Down Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2018\/11\/COM-desikan.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63584\" width=\"1204\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/11\/COM-desikan.png 1204w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/11\/COM-desikan-636x479.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/11\/COM-desikan-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/11\/COM-desikan-1024x771.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1204px) 100vw, 1204px\" \/>Rahul Desikan, MD (BUSM\u201909) a pioneering researcher with collaborators worldwide, and his team are on a quest for the causes of devastating degenerative brain diseases, like Alzheimer\u2019s and ALS. He knows firsthand that the people with these diseases don\u2019t have years to wait for breakthroughs\u2014in 2016 he was diagnosed with ALS. But his story is as much about friendship, love and science, as about loss and death. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/rahul-desikan-als-research\/\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BUSM alum, a pioneering neuroscientist, was attacking ALS \u2014 Then ALS attacked him.<\/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\/63583"}],"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=63583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63583\/revisions\/63626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}