{"id":6431,"date":"2024-06-06T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:00:51","slug":"rachel-fearns-is-awarded-the-ernest-barsamian-md-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/2024\/06\/06\/rachel-fearns-is-awarded-the-ernest-barsamian-md-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Fearns is awarded the Ernest Barsamian, MD Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ernest Barsamian, MD Professorship is one of five new professorships supported by the generous Avedisian endowment and provides funding to foster education and research in the Department of Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology.<\/p>\n<p>In her acceptance address, Dr. Fearns acknowledged the impact that family, mentors, and Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology faculty have had on her career, and gave thanks to the Avedisian family \u201cI want to thank the generosity of the Avedisian family for this gift, I\u2019m excited to take this on and to explore initiatives in research and education that we can now pursue with this endowment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the full story see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/faculty-receive-edward-avedisian-professorships\/\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/faculty-receive-edward-avedisian-professorships\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ernest Barsamian, MD Professorship is one of five new professorships supported by the generous Avedisian endowment and provides funding to foster education and research in the Department of Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology. In her acceptance address, Dr. Fearns acknowledged the impact that family, mentors, and Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology faculty have had on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}