{"id":22185,"date":"2024-03-05T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=22185"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:44:30","slug":"dom-faculty-member-receives-2024-sexual-medicine-research-fund-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2024\/03\/05\/dom-faculty-member-receives-2024-sexual-medicine-research-fund-award\/","title":{"rendered":"DoM Faculty Member Receives 2024 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in congratulating Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS in receiving the 2024 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Award!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS, assistant professor of medicine\/infectious diseases<\/strong>, and her team are developing monoclonal antibody-based products that can prevent sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancy. Complement proteins participate in a number of antibody mediated\u00a0immunological functions such as cell lysis, opsonization\/phagocytosis and chemotaxis. The researchers will measure complement levels and activity in vaginal secretions and study the diffusion and function of a contraceptive anti-sperm antibody (Anti-CD52g) in vaginal and cervical mucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in congratulating Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS in receiving the 2024 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Award! Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS, assistant professor of medicine\/infectious diseases, and her team are developing monoclonal antibody-based products that can prevent sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancy. Complement proteins participate in a number of antibody mediated\u00a0immunological functions such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20392,"featured_media":22187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185"}],"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\/20392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22211,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions\/22211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}