{"id":10785,"date":"2015-04-13T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/?p=10785"},"modified":"2015-04-13T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:50:49","slug":"sanghee-lim-received-2015-medical-student-research-grant-from-the-melanoma-research-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/2015\/04\/13\/sanghee-lim-received-2015-medical-student-research-grant-from-the-melanoma-research-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanghee Lim received 2015 Medical Student Research Grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sanghee Lim on being awarded a 2015 Medical Student Research Grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation for his proposal, \u201cDefining Novel Mechanisms of Genome Instability in Melanoma.\u201d The Medical Student Research Grant is awarded for a one-year period in order \u201cto provide opportunities and funding for medical students to engage in short clinical or laboratory-based research projects focused on better understanding the biology and treatment of melanoma.\u201d Sanghee is one of six medical students who received the nationally competitive award this year.<\/p>\n<p>An MD\/PhD student Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, Sanghee is working under the guidance of Dr. Neil Ganem, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology &amp; Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, in the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Biology at the Shamim and Ashraf Dahod Breast Cancer Research Laboratories. His work is aimed at defining the mechanisms that give rise to chromosome instability in human melanoma. In particular, Sanghee is testing whether activating mutations in the oncogene BRAF, which occur in ~80% of all melanomas, directly promote mitotic defects.<\/p>\n<p>Great job, Sanghee! Keep up the great work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sanghee Lim on being awarded a 2015 Medical Student Research Grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation for his proposal, \u201cDefining Novel Mechanisms of Genome Instability in Melanoma.\u201d The Medical Student Research Grant is awarded for a one-year period in order \u201cto provide opportunities and funding for medical students to engage in short clinical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3933],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}