{"id":109190,"date":"2020-06-27T06:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/brilliant-neurosurgeon-todd-mainprize-found-a-new-pathway-to-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-06-27T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:35:43","slug":"brilliant-neurosurgeon-todd-mainprize-found-a-new-pathway-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/brilliant-neurosurgeon-todd-mainprize-found-a-new-pathway-to-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant neurosurgeon Todd Mainprize found a new pathway to the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brilliant-neurosurgeon-todd-mainprize-found-a-new-pathway-to-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Dr. Mainprize felt proud of his role in the breakthrough, he didn\u2019t show it.<\/p>\n<p>He was well aware of the significance of this achievement; it was potentially the key to tackling a wide range of illnesses, from brain cancer to Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2013 illnesses that are currently impossible or hard to cure. But he also knew he and his team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre still had a long way to go before their work translated into actual treatment for patients, said his close friend and colleague Nir Lipsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Dr. Mainprize felt proud of his role in the breakthrough, he didn\u2019t show it. He was well aware of the significance of this achievement; it was potentially the key to tackling a wide range of illnesses, from brain cancer to Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2013 illnesses that are currently impossible or hard to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}