{"id":376,"date":"2020-04-20T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:02:04","slug":"dr-thomas-has-received-2-million-from-the-fl-department-of-health-to-study-virus-infection-and-progression-of-liver-disease-to-liver-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thomas has received a $2 million dollar grant from the FL Department of Health to study virus infection and progression of liver disease to liver cancer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Florida Department of Health has awarded Dr. Thomas the Bankhead-Coley Florida Clinical Cancer Research Grant to lead a research project titled &#8220;Identifying Infection and Molecular Determinants of Health Disparities in HCV Infected Minority Populations for the Prevention of HCC&#8221;. The project is designed to address health disparities in minority populations with HCV-attributable liver disease in order to increase the early detection of HCC. The study aims to aid in the detection of high-risk subgroups and improve understanding of the progression of HCV disease after infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"93\" src=\"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FLDOHlogo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"57\" src=\"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UM_MSOMlogo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Health has awarded Dr. Thomas the Bankhead-Coley Florida Clinical Cancer Research Grant to lead a research project titled &#8220;Identifying Infection and Molecular Determinants of Health Disparities in HCV Infected Minority Populations for the Prevention of HCC&#8221;. The project is designed to address health disparities in minority populations with HCV-attributable liver disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,23,13,7,4],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hepatocellular-carcinoma-viral-hepatitis-hcv-hbv-liver-cancer-cirrhosis","tag-awards","tag-clinical-research","tag-hepatocellular-carcinoma","tag-liver-cancer","tag-viral-hepatitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emmanuelthomasmdphd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}