{"id":5016,"date":"2022-09-29T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2022-09-29T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:20:54","slug":"congratulations-to-ashleigh-shannon-for-receiving-the-chu-family-foundation-tcff-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/2022\/09\/29\/congratulations-to-ashleigh-shannon-for-receiving-the-chu-family-foundation-tcff-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Ashleigh Shannon for receiving the Chu Family Foundation (TCFF) award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ashleigh Shannon has received a Chu Family Foundation (TCFF) award for early career women in antiviral research for her work on uncovering the mechanism of action of the nucleoside analog Bemnifosbuvir (AT-527) and its role as a potential coronavirus therapeutic. AT-527 is a prodrug that is converted in cells to the nucleoside triphosphate, AT-9010, which blocks both the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (nsp12)\u00a0 and the coronavirus-specific \u2018NiRAN\u2019 domain present on nsp12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-1024x1013.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-1024x1013.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-500x495.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-768x760.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-1536x1520.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-TCFF-Winners-with-Chus-crop-2048x2027.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The award has allowed her to attend and present this research at three international conferences; ICAR (Seattle USA, March 2022), Keystone Plus Strand Conference (Colorado USA, June 2022) \u2013 where she was additionally awarded a keystone symposia travel scholarship, and the Australiasian Virology Society (AVS) conference (Gold Coast Australia, December 2022).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashleigh Shannon has received a Chu Family Foundation (TCFF) award for early career women in antiviral research for her work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informations","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}