{"525041":{"#nid":"525041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thomas Gets Boost from DoD","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Department of Defense office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program awarded Petit Institute researcher Susan Thomas with a Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Career Development Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas, assistant professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, is awarded $529,000 over three years as part of a grant program that supports independent, early-career investigators who are conducting impactful research. The award is designed to foster groundbreaking cancer research relevant to active duty Service members, their families, and other military beneficiaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas\u2019s project focuses on developing\u0026nbsp;targeted therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a disease that disproportionately affects U.S. Military personnel. Her laboratory will utilize nanotechnology to investigate how targeted delivery improves melanoma immunotherapy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit Institute researcher receives career development award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPetit Institute researcher receives career development award\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit Institute researcher receives career development award"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2016-04-15 08:05:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:21","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"398621":{"id":"398621","type":"image","title":"Susan Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449246371","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:11","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"Susan Thomas","file":{"fid":"75740","name":"susan_t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/susan_t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/susan_t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1859198,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/susan_t.jpg?itok=-D7eJ-Gk"}}},"media_ids":["398621"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}