{"id":4701,"date":"2025-11-20T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:57:29","slug":"meg-younger-featured-in-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/2025\/11\/20\/meg-younger-featured-in-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Younger Featured in the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mcbb\/files\/2025\/11\/nihawards2025_myounger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"418\" class=\"wp-image-4710 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/files\/2025\/11\/nihawards2025_myounger.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/files\/2025\/11\/nihawards2025_myounger-472x636.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/files\/2025\/11\/nihawards2025_myounger-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/files\/2025\/11\/nihawards2025_myounger-768x1035.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngerlaboratory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Meg Younger<\/a> was featured <\/span>in\u00a0<em>The Brink <\/em>alongside BU School of Public Health (SPH) Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/julia-bond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Julia Bond<\/a>, for being awarded with the National Institute of Health&#8217;s (NIH) Director&#8217;s New Innovator Award. Meant to support &#8220;early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects,&#8221; the award funds research with $450,000 annually for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Younger will use the funding to strengthen her research on mosquito olfaction, particularly investigating how mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find humans. In her interview with <em>The Brink<\/em>, Younger describes her lab&#8217;s investigation of strategies to uncover how mosquitoes process scent information. Younger hopes her research can advance the prevention of disease transmission via mosquito bites.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <em>The Brink&#8217;s<\/em> interview with Younger <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/nih-honors-two-bu-researchers\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20251015_full&amp;utm_medium=1_featured_story&amp;utm_content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Meg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Meg Younger was featured in\u00a0The Brink alongside BU School of Public Health (SPH) Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Dr. Julia Bond, for being awarded with the National Institute of Health&#8217;s (NIH) Director&#8217;s New Innovator Award. Meant to support &#8220;early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects,&#8221; the award funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140745],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mcbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}