{"id":7292,"date":"2023-07-10T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7292"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:12:46","slug":"grace-hansen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/profile\/grace-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grace graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in May 2023 with a bachelors in science after majoring in Biology. At UMass Lowell, Grace was a 2 year captain of her division 1 lacrosse team, a member of the Honors College, and the president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She also minored in STEM Education through a program called UTeach where she spent time teaching in high school science classrooms. She spent a summer working at Burke Neurological Institute researching the \u03b1-Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase Complex and how this enzyme plays a key role in neurodegeneration while publishing a literature review at the end of the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grace is interested in CTE research and wants to investigate a way to both prevent and help treat CTE before an athlete passes away. She has a background in cellular and molecular Biology which she wants to use to conduct research in the sports neurology field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-source\">\n<div class=\"journal-actions dropdown-block\">\n<p class=\"heading-title\">The \u03b1-Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase Complex as a Hub of Plasticity in Neurodegeneration and Regeneration.\u00a0<span class=\"period\">Int J Mol Sci.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"cit\">2022 Oct 17;23(20):12403.<\/span>doi: 10.3390\/ijms232012403.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21100,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7292\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}