{"id":1178,"date":"2019-03-11T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2019-03-11T17:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:42:26","slug":"2019-irish-cancer-society-research-awards-finalist-phd-student-alexandra-tuzova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"2019 Irish Cancer Society Research Awards Finalist: Phd Student Alexandra Tuzova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1179 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Alex-ICS-awards.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Alex-ICS-awards.png 879w, https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Alex-ICS-awards-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Alex-ICS-awards-768x350.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/>Alex was one of three Irish Cancer Society-funded scholars who were shortlisted for an Irish Cancer Society Research Award, where she presented a lay version of her research to a mixed audience judged by a patient panel. To-date, Alex has computationally identified changes in activity of thousands of enhancer regulatory elements in prostate cancer. Her talk entitled \u201cUnderstanding Aggressive Prostate Cancer\u201d, explained her key findings in simple terms by applying an analogy that searching for these tiny DNA sequences in the human genome is equivalent to searching for a small set of words in 200 phone books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex was one of three Irish Cancer Society-funded scholars who were shortlisted for an Irish Cancer Society Research Award, where she presented a lay version of her research to a mixed audience judged by a patient panel. To-date, Alex has computationally identified changes in activity of thousands of enhancer regulatory elements in prostate cancer. Her &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/?p=1178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2019 Irish Cancer Society Research Awards Finalist: Phd Student Alexandra Tuzova&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbtlab.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}