  {"id":4011,"date":"2022-10-26T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:37:10","slug":"csb-faculty-receive-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2022\/10\/26\/csb-faculty-receive-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"CSB faculty receive awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4012\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4012\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2022\/10\/26\/csb-faculty-receive-awards\/damo-davis-yang\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang.png\" data-orig-size=\"2667,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Damo-Davis-Yang\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis, John Yang&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-1024x576.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4012\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/10\/19203840\/Damo-Davis-Yang-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis, John Yang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CSB faculty Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis and John Yang were recently recognized for their work in promoting diversity and inclusion in science, Alzheimer&#8217;s research and computational enzyme design.<\/p>\n<p>Fisk University Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Life and Physical Sciences, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/steven-damo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steven Damo<\/strong><\/a> was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/science\/programs-resources\/science-diversity-leadership-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Diversity Leadership<\/a> grant by the <a href=\"https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chan Zuckerberg Initiative<\/a> (CZI) in partnership with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). Steve&#8217;s funded project aims to characterize the molecular mechanisms of the zinc efflux protein CadD from <em>S. agalactiae<\/em>, a pathogen that is the leading cause of adverse pregnancy outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Meharry Medical College Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/jamaine-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jamaine Davis<\/strong><\/a> was awarded an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/research\/for_researchers\/grants\/types-of-grants\/aba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APOE Biology in Alzheimer\u2019s (ABA)<\/a> grant by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a> through the Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Strategic Fund (ADSF). Jamaine&#8217;s lab will use the grant <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to help understand how SNPs associated with health disparities influence lipid loading to APOE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/zhongyue-john-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John Yang<\/strong><\/a> was named a <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/chemical-physics\/about\/awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award<\/a> Honorary Mention<\/span> by Elsevier Publishing and <em>Chemical Physics<\/em>. <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The award recognizes John&#8217;s theoretical work on the dynamic nature of reactive intermediates. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zyang-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to check out John\u2019s other works on computational enzyme design. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our fabulous researchers on these exciting achievements! ~ K.D.D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSB faculty Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis and John Yang were recently recognized for their work in promoting diversity and inclusion in science, Alzheimer&#8217;s research and computational enzyme design. Fisk University Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Life and Physical Sciences, Steven Damo was awarded a Science Diversity Leadership grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)&#8230;<\/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\/4011"}],"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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}