{"id":5570,"date":"2024-09-04T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:07:59","slug":"iverson-receives-innovation-catalyst-fund-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2024\/09\/04\/iverson-receives-innovation-catalyst-fund-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Iverson receives Innovation Catalyst Fund award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5571\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2024\/09\/04\/iverson-receives-innovation-catalyst-fund-award\/tina_cropped1-768x733\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"768,733\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tina_cropped1-768&#215;733\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tina Iverson, Pharmacology&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1-300x286.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/09\/04080413\/Tina_cropped1-768x733-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Iverson, Pharmacology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/iverson-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tina Iverson<\/a>, Louise B. McGavock Chair and professor of pharmacology, received an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2023\/09\/08\/vanderbilt-launches-innovation-catalyst-fund-to-propel-translational-research-and-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Catalyst Fund<\/a> award for her research project, \u201cInhibition of Bacterial Chemotaxis as an Antibiotic Potentiator,\u201d which focuses on chemotaxis\u2014a versatile process that allows bacteria to swim toward energy-rich molecules, find preferred niches for infection, avoid harmful species, change speeds, and form biofilms\u2014as a potential target for new therapeutics. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-024-01674-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent publication<\/a> from her lab describes how that process works in detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/basic-sciences\/2024\/07\/29\/three-basic-sciences-faculty-awarded-2024-innovation-catalyst-and-seeding-success-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> about this honor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Iverson, Louise B. McGavock Chair and professor of pharmacology, received an Innovation Catalyst Fund award for her research project, \u201cInhibition of Bacterial Chemotaxis as an Antibiotic Potentiator,\u201d which focuses on chemotaxis\u2014a versatile process that allows bacteria to swim toward energy-rich molecules, find preferred niches for infection, avoid harmful species, change speeds, and form biofilms\u2014as&#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\/5570"}],"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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}