{"id":15557,"date":"2016-05-05T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/?p=15557"},"modified":"2016-05-10T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:41:19","slug":"ayotunde-dokun-receives-nih-r01-award-for-pad-and-diabetes-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/?p=15557","title":{"rendered":"Ayotunde Dokun Receives NIH R01 Award for PAD and Diabetes Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/files\/2016\/05\/EndoAR001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15560 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/files\/2016\/05\/EndoAR001-e1462476595889-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uvahealth.com\/findadoctor\/profile\/Ayotunde-Dokun\"><strong>Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, was awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his project, &#8220;Modulation of miR29a and ADAM12 to improve peripheral arterial disease outcomes in diabetes.&#8221; Endocrinology division chief <strong>Zhenqi Liu, MD<\/strong>, extended his congratulations and remarked: &#8220;This award reflects the outstanding work Dr. Dokun has been doing in relation to peripheral artery disease and diabetes, and I wish him the best of success with this project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD,\u00a0an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, was awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his project, &#8220;Modulation of miR29a and ADAM12 to improve peripheral arterial disease outcomes in diabetes.&#8221; Endocrinology division chief Zhenqi Liu, MD, extended his congratulations and remarked: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[68,48],"class_list":["post-15557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable-achievements","tag-awards","tag-endo"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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