{"id":4127,"date":"2021-04-13T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:43:25","slug":"graduate-student-micah-willis-awarded-2021-aai-minority-scientist-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/graduate-student-micah-willis-awarded-2021-aai-minority-scientist-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Micah Willis awarded 2021 AAI Minority Scientist Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-600x899.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/738\/2020\/07\/Willis-pic-072420-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Micah Willis<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Micah Willis for receiving the AAI Minority Scientist award for his work on\u00a0&#8220;Microvesicle-associated immunomodulators are critical regulators of immune dysfunction following burn injury&#8221;. Burn injury can be separated into two very distinct phases; an hyper-inflammative early-acute phase (0-72 hours post injury), followed by an immunosuppressive sub-acute phase. Micah&#8217;s work will examine the\u00a0hypothesis that MVs have the potential to drive the immune dysfunction in burn injury and my project focuses on characterization by\u00a0<em>in-vitro\u00a0<\/em>&amp;\u00a0<em>in-vivo<\/em>\u00a0assays to assess function of MVs following burn injury. Micah is mentored by Dr. Robert Maile, an investigator in the Jaycee Burn Center at UNC-CH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Willis Congratulations to Micah Willis for receiving the AAI Minority Scientist award for his work on\u00a0&#8220;Microvesicle-associated immunomodulators are critical regulators of immune dysfunction following burn injury&#8221;. Burn injury can be separated into two very distinct phases; an hyper-inflammative early-acute phase (0-72 hours post injury), followed by an immunosuppressive sub-acute phase. Micah&#8217;s work will examine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/graduate-student-micah-willis-awarded-2021-aai-minority-scientist-award\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Graduate Student Micah Willis awarded 2021 AAI Minority Scientist Award\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/toxicology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}