{"id":54141,"date":"2024-07-11T02:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=54141"},"modified":"2024-07-11T02:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:37:02","slug":"ophthalmologist-awarded-2-3m-nih-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2024\/07\/11\/ophthalmologist-awarded-2-3m-nih-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophthalmologist awarded $2.3M NIH grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Ashok Kumar, PhD, a professor of ophthalmology, visual and anatomical sciences at Wayne State University\u2019s School of Medicine in Detroit, was <a href=\"https:\/\/today.wayne.edu\/medicine\/news\/2024\/07\/08\/nih-awards-kumar-lab-23-million-to-study-cell-death-mechanisms-during-ocular-infections-63062\">awarded<\/a> $2.3 million to study cell death mechanisms during ocular infections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The grant was awarded by the National Eye Institute and the National Institutes of Health, according to a July 8 news release from Wayne State University. Dr. Kumar\u2019s will research ferroptosis, a type of regulated cell death. Ferroptosis damages the retina during bacterial endophthalmitis, a severe type of intraocular infection that can occur after surgery or trauma.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The research will incorporate microbiology, immunology, cell biology and nanotechnology to increase understanding of ferroptosis and develop new clinical therapies for bacterial endophthalmitis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Kumar, PhD, a professor of ophthalmology, visual and anatomical sciences at Wayne State University\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54144,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54141\/revisions\/54144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}