{"id":219476,"date":"2025-08-06T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/pharmacy-professor-works-to-unlock-secrets-of-cellular-sugar"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:03:27","slug":"pharmacy-professor-works-to-unlock-secrets-of-cellular-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/pharmacy-professor-works-to-unlock-secrets-of-cellular-sugar","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Professor Works to Unlock Secrets of Cellular Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pharmacy-professor-works-to-unlock-secrets-of-cellular-sugar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 A University of Mississippi pharmacy professor will study how sugar molecules on proteins could lead to new ways to detect and treat diseases using a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to Jing Li, assistant professor of medical chemistry and research and assistant professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science.<\/p>\n<p>Li will use computer modeling to study the effects of sugar molecules connected to proteins. These molecules \u2013 known as glycosylation \u2013 affect ion channels that play a crucial role in brain activity, heartbeats and muscle movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 A University of Mississippi pharmacy professor will study how sugar molecules on proteins could lead to new ways to detect and treat diseases using a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation. The NSF has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to Jing Li, assistant professor of medical chemistry and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219476","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=219476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}