{"id":2919,"date":"2025-02-28T09:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:06:55","slug":"biochemistry-student-spotlight-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2025\/biochemistry-student-spotlight-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Student Spotlight &#8211; George Hilan"},"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                        Biochemistry Student Spotlight\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"publication-alert-next-generation-precision-cancer-therapy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publication alert: Next-generation precision cancer therapy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr.jpg 688w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr-160x83.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr-240x125.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr-400x208.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/GraphAbstr-360x187.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>George Hilan<\/strong> (B.Sc. Biochemistry &amp; Biotechnology\/2022 and M.Sc. Biochemistry\/2024) has published research on cancer-targeting peptides. This work was part of a larger project in the groups of Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/bill-willmore\/\">Bill Willmore<\/a> and Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/david-sabatino-arriving-january-2022\/\">David Sabatino<\/a> (Institute of Biochemistry). The work indicates that specific peptides could function as efficient therapeutic delivery systems for applications related to cancer-targeted gene therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxxmsonormal\">Read the research here (<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/psc.70007\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/psc.70007<\/a>). For more information on Prof. Willmore and Prof. Sabatino\u2019s research, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/willmorelab\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/willmorelab\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sabatinolab\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sabatinolab\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication alert: Next-generation precision cancer therapy &nbsp; George Hilan (B.Sc. Biochemistry &amp; Biotechnology\/2022 and M.Sc. Biochemistry\/2024) has published research on cancer-targeting peptides. This work was part of a larger project in the groups of Prof. Bill Willmore and Prof. David Sabatino (Institute of Biochemistry). The work indicates that specific peptides could function as efficient therapeutic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2921,"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-2919","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\/2919","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=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}