{"id":2417,"date":"2016-10-26T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/chemistry\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:56:21","slug":"phd-candidate-emily-mastronardi-wins-grit-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/2016\/phd-candidate-emily-mastronardi-wins-grit-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Candidate Emily Mastronardi wins GRIT 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                        PhD Candidate Emily Mastronardi wins GRIT award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>PhD candidate Emily Mastronardi from the DeRosa lab&nbsp;has be awarded the Graduate Research and Innovative Thinking (GRIT) award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mastronardi will be using her GRIT award to purchase specific DNA synthesis reagents to carry out her research. She will examine DNA aptamers which are an innovative solution for detecting small molecules and creating sensors. Measuring the binding affinity of an aptamer for its small molecule target has been a major challenge in the field, and this award will be used to develop methodology to bridge aptamers into therapeutic applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on this years GRIT winners, click <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2016\/grad-students-grit-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD candidate Emily Mastronardi from the DeRosa lab&nbsp;has be awarded the Graduate Research and Innovative Thinking (GRIT) award. &#8220;Mastronardi will be using her GRIT award to purchase specific DNA synthesis reagents to carry out her research. She will examine DNA aptamers which are an innovative solution for detecting small molecules and creating sensors. Measuring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"award"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}