{"id":239,"date":"2005-11-11T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=239"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:04","slug":"2005-petro-canada-young-innovator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2005\/2005-petro-canada-young-innovator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        2005 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Dr. Susan Aitken is this year\u2019s recipient of the 2005 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award.  Dr. Aitken\u2019s research focuses on understanding how plants can be used to decontaminate soils that are polluted with toxic heavy-metals. Other applications of her research include the production of varieties of crop plants with improved nutritional quality, and an improved understanding of sulfur amino acid metabolism in humans that will lead to the development of treatments for diseases including atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, and Down syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Susan Aitken is this year\u2019s recipient of the 2005 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Dr. Aitken\u2019s research focuses on understanding how plants can be used to decontaminate soils that are polluted with toxic heavy-metals. Other applications of her research include the production of varieties of crop plants with improved nutritional quality, and an improved understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}