{"82071":{"#nid":"82071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student Wins Churchill Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonique Gupta has done it again. Winner of the prestigious Goldwater scholarship last spring, Gupta has captured the Churchill scholarship for one year of study at the University of Cambridge. Gupta plans to use her scholarship to get a Master of Philosophy in genetics before going to medical school. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudying industrial systems and engineering at Georgia Tech, she said, has given her a solid foundation on which to base her career as a physician. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In today\u0027s age of medicine, no physician can go forward without knowing more about the research that\u0027s being conducted,\u0022 Gupta said. \u0022By the time I start practicing, all these novel concepts we see today are going to be in use. I need to have a background in them.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGene therapy is one of the concepts, Gupta said, will be more common by the time she starts practicing medicine. While at Tech, she participated in this type of research with Joseph LeDoux, professor in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGene therapy is a novel approach to treating diseases, and most of it is still in the experimental phase, said Gupta. But the idea is that scientists would first identify a gene in a patient that is causing a certain disease.  \u0022A new gene would be created in a lab, and doctors would use it to replace the gene that is causing the problem. One way to deliver the new gene to the patient is by using a retrovirus to carry the gene into the affected area of the patient,\u0022 explained Gupta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Diseases that can be helped by gene transfer include rheumatic arthritis and juvenile arthritis,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGupta is Tech\u0027s third student to win the Churchill. The scholarship is given out by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, which was founded in 1959 as an expression of admiration for former British Prime Minister William Churchill. The award pays for one year of study at the University of Cambridge, plus a living allowance. Only 75 universities are allowed to nominate students for this prestigious honor.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Monique Gupta has done it again. Winner of the prestigious Goldwater scholarship last spring, Gupta has captured the Churchill scholarship for one year of study at the University of Cambridge.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-02-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:02","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"82081":{"id":"82081","type":"image","title":"Monique Gupta","body":null,"created":"1449178087","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:07","changed":"1475894698","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:58"}},"media_ids":["82081"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.thechurchillscholarships.com\/","title":"Churchill Scholarship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}