{"380681":{"#nid":"380681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Champion lab receives $104,000 research grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, has received a one-year grant for more than $104,000 from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grant will support student researchers and purchase supplies for Champion\u2019s research on using protein assembly to create therapeutic materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis grant will enable us to design effective methods of delivering antibodies inside cells,\u201d Champion said. \u201cAntibodies can treat many diseases, including cancers, but currently they can only be used outside of cells. There are many more disease targets for antibodies inside cells, but the challenge is to get the antibodies inside the cells, because they do not enter on their own.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are developing ways to introduce the antibodies inside the cells without damaging the structure of the antibodies, which destroys their effectiveness.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation supports scientific research \u2014 particularly in the areas of neuroscience, regenerative medicine, cell biology, cancer and nanotechnology or nanoscience \u2014 that is \u201cintended to benefit all or a large portion of humanity,\u201d according to the organization\u2019s mission statement.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Julie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering, has received a one-year grant for more than $104,000 from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation."}],"uid":"28045","created_gmt":"2015-02-20 16:13:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:51","author":"Amy Schneider","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"380701":{"id":"380701","type":"image","title":"Julie Champion","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Julie Champion","file":{"fid":"75264","name":"julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":874584,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg?itok=8iBfX3my"}}},"media_ids":["380701"],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmy Schneider\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-2299\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:news@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enews@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}