{"id":10629,"date":"2021-04-12T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10629"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"noa-gang-a-phd-candidate-in-biology-wins-poster-award-at-life-sciences-day-for-her-amazing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/noa-gang-a-phd-candidate-in-biology-wins-poster-award-at-life-sciences-day-for-her-amazing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Noa Gang a PhD candidate in Biology Wins Poster Award at Life Sciences Day for Her Amazing Research"},"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                        Noa Gang a PhD candidate in Biology Wins Poster Award at Life Sciences Day for Her Amazing Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Noa Gang a PhD candidate in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/biology-phd\/\">Biology<\/a><u>,<\/u>&nbsp;is examining the impact of man-made environmental toxins on beta cells in the pancreas. Gang works in a Diabetes and toxicology lab where the impact of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human health are studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese chemicals are being phased out, however due to their resistance to degradation, POPs can be found all over the globe, and in most individuals,\u201d explained Gang. \u201cI study the most toxic of these chemicals: TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-<em>p<\/em>-dioxin).&nbsp;My research examines the impact of TCDD on the pancreatic beta cell at a biomolecular scale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2021\/grad-research-the-impact-of-environmental-toxins-on-the-pancreas\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noa Gang a PhD candidate in&nbsp;Biology,&nbsp;is examining the impact of man-made environmental toxins on beta cells in the pancreas. Gang works in a Diabetes and toxicology lab where the impact of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human health are studied. \u201cThese chemicals are being phased out, however due to their resistance to degradation, POPs can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10631,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions\/10631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}