{"id":13107,"date":"2007-01-25T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/2007\/01\/25\/xiuli-sun-one-of-six-awarded-for-preventive-research\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:38:10","slug":"xiuli-sun-one-of-six-awarded-for-preventive-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/2007\/01\/25\/xiuli-sun-one-of-six-awarded-for-preventive-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiuli Sun One of Six Awarded for Preventive Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<img src=\"\/dental\/files\/news-cms\/photos\/xiuli-sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/>\n<p>Xiuli Sun, doctor of science candidate at BUSDM, is the winner of  the prestigious <a title=\"http:\/\/www.iadr.com\/awards\/colgatetravel.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iadr.com\/awards\/colgatetravel.html\">Colgate Research in  Prevention Travel Award<\/a> for her abstract, &quot;Oral Fungal Disease Prevention:  Impact of Histatin Proteolysis.&quot; She is one of just six recipients  internationally and the only winner in the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p>Sun&#8217;s research, which she worked on with Drs. Frank Oppenheim, Eva  Helmerhorst, and Erdjan Salih,<strong> <\/strong>focuses on the impact of  proteolysis, or protein digestion, on the structure and function of proteins in  saliva.  <\/p>\n<p>She will receive the prize of $2,000 when she presents her paper  at the annual meeting of the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.dentalresearch.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dentalresearch.org\/\">International Association for Dental  Research<\/a> (IADR) March 21 to 24 in New Orleans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiuli Sun, doctor of science candidate at BUSDM, is the winner of the prestigious Colgate Research in Prevention Travel Award for her abstract, &quot;Oral Fungal Disease Prevention: Impact of Histatin Proteolysis.&quot; She is one of just six recipients internationally and the only winner in the U.S. Sun&#8217;s research, which she worked on with Drs. Frank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13839,13838],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19140,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}