{"id":177844,"date":"2021-10-08T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=177844"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:32:57","slug":"ovpr-awards-caric-award-to-pharmaceutical-science-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/10\/ovpr-awards-caric-award-to-pharmaceutical-science-project\/","title":{"rendered":"OVPR Awards CARIC Award to Pharmaceutical Science Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UConn Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/ovpr.uconn.edu\/services\/research-development\/internal-funding-opportunities\/caric\/\">Convergence Awards for Research in Interdisciplinary Centers<\/a> (CARIC) to associate professor of medicinal chemistry Marcy Balunas.<\/p>\n<p>CARIC awards provide interdisciplinary teams with up to $150,000 for planning, outreach to strategic partners, and proof-of-concept research activities. This developmental funding allows UConn researchers to bid to major federally funded initiatives like research centers and awards.<\/p>\n<p>This seeding funding will allow the team to explore the role of metals in host-microbe interactions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow UConn Research on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FUConnResearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=x7toGyDgv%2FVxj1VaaW1ggPWSf9nnmNcoeDxG0WIca5I%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em> &amp; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fuconnresearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=7hid3FG3d5m%2BFMFp%2Fm2NAw2dtSadVPfpn5nuLzc%2BkrY%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>LinkedIn<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate professor of medicinal chemistry Marcy Balunas received the 2021 CARIC award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076,1864],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2277],"class_list":["post-177844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-pharm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 07:41:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177850,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177844\/revisions\/177850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177844"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=177844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=177844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}