{"id":2811,"date":"2024-09-27T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:57","slug":"2811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2024\/2811\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Spotlight: Forever Chemicals"},"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                        Research Spotlight: Forever Chemicals\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Amy-Dan-sportlight-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2813\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biochemistry Professors <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/amy-rand\/\">Amy Rand<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/daniel-gregoire\/\">Daniel Gr\u00e9goire<\/a>&nbsp;have been awarded funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) from the Government of Canada. The funding will investigate the potential of the gut microbiome in breaking down carcinogenic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on their research programs, visit Prof. Rand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arandlab.ca%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSalmanKhanPathan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C962326c2c47444e7346c08dcde4df5e6%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638629673623213815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=yT2%2FxjKPBbU7cFV7uTOtAinFlD1kqGLrd0v%2FLDuoYac%3D&amp;reserved=0\">environmental contaminants<\/a>&nbsp;webpage and Prof. Gr\u00e9goire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/envbiotech\/\">environmental biogeochemistry<\/a>&nbsp;webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biochemistry Professors Amy Rand&nbsp;and Daniel Gr\u00e9goire&nbsp;have been awarded funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) from the Government of Canada. The funding will investigate the potential of the gut microbiome in breaking down carcinogenic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). For more information on their research programs, visit Prof. Rand\u2019s environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}