{"id":2781,"date":"2020-07-30T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:53:15","slug":"csb-congratulations-katherine-amidon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2020\/07\/30\/csb-congratulations-katherine-amidon\/","title":{"rendered":"CSB Congratulations! Katherine Amidon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Katherine Amidon, of the Eichman Lab<\/a>, on being named the 2020\u00a0Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. Katherine will be mentored\u00a0by the recipient of the 2020 Vanderbilt Prize<\/a> in Biomedical Science, Jennifer Doudna<\/a>, Ph.D. Dr. Doudna\u00a0led development of the revolutionary genome editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9. Katherine’s\u00a0research focuses on a novel DNA repair mechanism that protects against abasic sites \u2014 a highly abundant and toxic form of DNA damage<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholars usually are recognized during the presentation of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Prize. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Doudna\u2019s award presentation has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the coming months.<\/p>\n

For more information, read the complete story in the VUMC Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Katherine Amidon, of the Eichman Lab, on being named the 2020\u00a0Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. Katherine will be mentored\u00a0by the recipient of the 2020 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Dr. Doudna\u00a0led development of the revolutionary genome editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9. Katherine’s\u00a0research focuses on a novel DNA repair mechanism that protects…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}