{"id":29541,"date":"2016-08-31T00:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/methuselah-foundation-fellowship-award-winner-tackles-research-in-macular-degeneration"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:44:11","slug":"methuselah-foundation-fellowship-award-winner-tackles-research-in-macular-degeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/methuselah-foundation-fellowship-award-winner-tackles-research-in-macular-degeneration","title":{"rendered":"Methuselah Foundation Fellowship Award Winner Tackles Research in Macular Degeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/methuselah-foundation-fellowship-award-winner-tackles-research-in-macular-degeneration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at the Methuselah Foundation are working on macular degeneration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Typically, a fellowship and participation in a research study to cure a major disease would occur years after completing undergrad, possibly even after earning a PhD. But Jennifer DeRosa is not a typical student.<\/p>\n<p>As early as high school, DeRosa was already in the lab, conducting research in plant biotechnology at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) before graduating valedictorian from Skaneateles High School. As a freshman student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunyocc.edu\/\">Onondaga Community College<\/a>, she continued to develop skills in molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and cell biology. She logged over 1,600 hours in academic and industry laboratories while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA, completing her associate\u2019s degree in Math and Science in only one year.<\/p>\n<p>Although she had planned to continue to a bachelor\u2019s program, DeRosa elected to defer enrollment after being offered a Methuselah Foundation research fellowship. \u201cThe fellowship provides distinguished students a year-long stipend to work in any laboratory of their choosing that conducts work on age-associated diseases,\u201d said Methuselah Foundation CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Gobel\">David Gobel<\/a>. \u201cWe are very pleased that she chose to complete her fellowship at <a href=\"http:\/\/ichortherapeutics.com\/\">Ichor Therapeutics<\/a>, where she has been working as a paid intern. Methuselah Foundation has a high degree of confidence in the quality and scope of work being conducted there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfoundation.org\/blog\/news\/methuselah-foundation-fellowship-award-winner-tackles-research-in-macular-degeneration\/\">https:\/\/www.mfoundation.org\/blog\/news\/methuselah-foundation-...eneration\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at the Methuselah Foundation are working on macular degeneration. Typically, a fellowship and participation in a research study to cure a major disease would occur years after completing undergrad, possibly even after earning a PhD. But Jennifer DeRosa is not a typical student. As early as high school, DeRosa was already in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60561,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions\/60561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}