{"id":8070,"date":"2021-11-30T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:26:24","slug":"dr-richard-rick-sherva-awarded-nih-r01-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/2021\/11\/30\/dr-richard-rick-sherva-awarded-nih-r01-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sherva awarded NIH R01 Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exploring mechanisms driving microbe-induced AD risk using next generations sequence data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/genetics-people\/faculty\/richard-sherva-phd\/\">Dr. Richard Sherva<\/a> awarded NIH R01 grant<\/p>\n<p>Multiple lines of evidence suggest microbial infections are risk factors for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). Amyloid-\u03b2 (A\u03b2) peptides possess antimicrobial activity and may protect against human herpes viruses (HHV). Viral DNA is also detectable in A\u03b2 plaques, and HHV DNA detected in next generation sequencing (NGS) experiments is associated with AD risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/RlicFwQJR0KKRxUBP_KQjw\/project-details\/10381136\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring mechanisms driving microbe-induced AD risk using next generations sequence data Dr. Richard Sherva awarded NIH R01 grant Multiple lines of evidence suggest microbial infections are risk factors for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). Amyloid-\u03b2 (A\u03b2) peptides possess antimicrobial activity and may protect against human herpes viruses (HHV). Viral DNA is also detectable in A\u03b2 plaques, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}