{"id":114866,"date":"2022-02-15T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=114866"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:11:06","slug":"inventor-mark-grinstaff-named-a-2021-aaas-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2022\/02\/15\/inventor-mark-grinstaff-named-a-2021-aaas-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor Mark Grinstaff Named a 2021 AAAS Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114872\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/02\/Grinstaff-photo-636x545-636x545-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114872\" width=\"263\" height=\"397\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Andrew Thurston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pioneering treatment that targets advanced breast cancer. Biodegradable sealants to close wounds in cranial surgery. Self-lubricating condoms to reduce disease spread. A prolific inventor, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/mark-grinstaff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Grinstaff<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/departments\/bme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BME<\/a>, Chemistry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/departments\/mse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSE<\/a>, MED) holds more than 200 patents or pending applications covering a wide swath of medical challenges. Now, the scope of his impact has been recognized with the distinguished American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) naming him a 2021 Fellow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Get the full story at<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/inventor-mark-grinstaff-named-a-aaas-fellow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Thurston A pioneering treatment that targets advanced breast cancer. Biodegradable sealants to close wounds in cranial surgery. Self-lubricating condoms to reduce disease spread. A prolific inventor, Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED) holds more than 200 patents or pending applications covering a wide swath of medical challenges. Now, the scope of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,899,541,535,316],"tags":[364,656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128399,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114866\/revisions\/128399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}