{"id":3833,"date":"2008-12-30T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2008\/12\/30\/julie-cheng-84\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:47","slug":"julie-cheng-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2008\/12\/julie-cheng-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Cheng &#8217;84 &amp; OneWorld Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Julie<\/b> was featured in a full page article in the Autumn 2008 issue of the <b>Reed magazine<\/b>, p. 36. The article described Julie&#8217;s work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworldhealth.org\/\"><b>Institute for OneWorld Health<\/b><\/a>, a nonprofit organization that &#8220;seeks out less-profitable drugs that others have abandoned, hoping to find cures for major diseases of the second and third world.&#8221; Current projects include developing a cheaper route to artemisinin, a highly prized antimalarial, and finding an antidiarrheal drug in an 800,000 compound library donated by the pharmaceutical giant, Roche. Although Julie&#8217;s work is mainly on the business and legal side, her Reed thesis title reveals her scientific background: &#8220;Reactions of benzalmethanedisulfonyl fluoride (2-phenyl-1, 1-ethenedisulfonyl fluoride)&#8221; (advisor: M. Cronyn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie was featured in a full page article in the Autumn 2008 issue of the Reed magazine, p. 36. The article described Julie&#8217;s work with the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit organization that &#8220;seeks out less-profitable drugs that others&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2008\/12\/julie-cheng-84\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Julie Cheng &#8217;84 &amp; OneWorld Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}