{"id":208604,"date":"2025-03-13T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/our-interview-with-times-2024-kid-of-the-year-inventor-of-a-cancer-fighting-soap"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:03:26","slug":"our-interview-with-times-2024-kid-of-the-year-inventor-of-a-cancer-fighting-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/our-interview-with-times-2024-kid-of-the-year-inventor-of-a-cancer-fighting-soap","title":{"rendered":"Our interview with \u201cTIME\u2019s 2024 Kid of the Year,\u201d inventor of a cancer-fighting soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-interview-with-times-2024-kid-of-the-year-inventor-of-a-cancer-fighting-soap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heman Bekele has just been named Time\u2019s 2024 Kid of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>S 15, is already spending part of every weekday working in a lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, hoping to bring his dream to fruition. \u2018.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Last year NPR interviewed Heman Bekele about his invention of a soap to fight skin cancer. He was motivated by his childhood in Ethiopia: He saw people working in the sun and thought of health risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heman Bekele has just been named Time\u2019s 2024 Kid of the Year. S 15, is already spending part of every weekday working in a lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, hoping to bring his dream to fruition. \u2018. Last year NPR interviewed Heman Bekele about his invention of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208604","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}