{"id":10702,"date":"2018-02-06T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=10702"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:24:48","slug":"joseph-kaserman-md-receives-john-w-walsh-translational-research-award-in-alpha-1-antitrypsin-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2018\/02\/06\/joseph-kaserman-md-receives-john-w-walsh-translational-research-award-in-alpha-1-antitrypsin-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Kaserman, MD, receives John W. Walsh Translational Research Award in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/COM-Joseph_Kaserman_Andrew_Wilson_lab_MED_5501b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/COM-Joseph_Kaserman_Andrew_Wilson_lab_MED_5501b.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Wilson, MD, left and Grantee Joseph Kaserman, MD (PRNewsfoto\/Alpha-1 Foundation)\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/COM-Joseph_Kaserman_Andrew_Wilson_lab_MED_5501b.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/COM-Joseph_Kaserman_Andrew_Wilson_lab_MED_5501b-397x300.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/COM-Joseph_Kaserman_Andrew_Wilson_lab_MED_5501b-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Kaserman, MD<\/strong>, Instructor in the Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care, received the inaugural\u00a0 John W. Walsh Translational Research Award in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.\u00a0 The award\u00a0is named in honor of John W. Walsh, the co founder of the Alpha-1 Foundation, who dedicated his life to finding a cure for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and helping those afflicted by\u00a0it. Kaserman will be using the $225,000 award ($75,000 over three years)\u00a0 to study whether Alpha-1 carriers (individuals who have one normal Alpha1 gene (M) and one mutated gene (Z)), have an increased risk of developing liver disease. Alpha-1 is a genetic (inherited) condition, passed from parents to their children through their genes. It may result in serious lung disease in adults and\/or liver disease at any age and up to 2% of the U.S. population could be an Alpha-1 carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. Kaserman!<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2018\/01\/31\/joseph-kaserman-md-receives-translational-research-award\/\">http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2018\/01\/31\/joseph-kaserman-md-receives-translational-research-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Kaserman, MD, Instructor in the Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care, received the inaugural\u00a0 John W. Walsh Translational Research Award in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.\u00a0 The award\u00a0is named in honor of John W. Walsh, the co founder of the Alpha-1 Foundation, who dedicated his life to finding a cure for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions\/10708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}