{"id":5649,"date":"2024-10-21T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:19:41","slug":"andrew-chen-and-serena-khan-receive-2024-fall-student-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/2024\/10\/21\/andrew-chen-and-serena-khan-receive-2024-fall-student-research-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Chen and Serena Khan Receive 2024 Fall Student Research Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/A-Chen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/A-Chen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5651\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-710x710.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/files\/2024\/10\/S-Khan-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to<strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Andrew Chen<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Serena Khan<\/span><\/strong>, students in the Cui lab, for receiving the 2024 Fall Student Research Awards for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Their research further examines the in vivo effects of oral administration of these PGC-1a agonists (SR-18292 and ZLN005) on sickle cell disease mice. Since oral small molecule pharmaceuticals that up-regulate fetal hemoglobin will offer a widely available treatment of sickle cell disease, the findings from their studies might provide potential therapeutic benefit in sickle cell patients with less than optimal responses to current treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Andrew Chen and Serena Khan, students in the Cui lab, for receiving the 2024 Fall Student Research Awards for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Their research further examines the in vivo effects of oral administration of these PGC-1a agonists (SR-18292 and ZLN005) on sickle cell disease mice. Since oral small molecule pharmaceuticals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6467,"featured_media":5651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}