{"id":1053,"date":"2013-10-08T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2013-10-08T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T02:02:14","slug":"sa-scientist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2013\/10\/08\/sa-scientist-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Scientist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/10\/Prof-Graeme-Young-06-Feb-12_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1054\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/10\/Prof-Graeme-Young-06-Feb-12_v2-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Graeme Young \" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/10\/Prof-Graeme-Young-06-Feb-12_v2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/10\/Prof-Graeme-Young-06-Feb-12_v2.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Graeme Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>World-leading gastrointestinal expert, Professor Graeme Young has been named South Australia\u2019s Scientist of the Year for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at the Science Excellence Awards (South Australia\u2019s premier event to honour outstanding achievers in science and research) in August, the prestigious title recognises Professor Young\u2019s instrumental role in developing the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, as well as his tireless efforts to eradicate infant deaths from diarrhoea in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>He was also acknowledged for his integral role in establishing the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, particularly the third-floor Cancer Prevention Unit where he is based.\u00a0 The Centre houses world-class care and survivorship services, alongside innovative cancer prevention and early intervention research.<\/p>\n<p>One of Professor Young\u2019s key achievements has been winning a $22 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to progress his ground-breaking and globally significant work in establishing a process for re-examining the role of zinc therapy in diarrhoea and malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>The Scientist of the Year title has gone to a Flinders researcher for two years running, with Professor of Biomedical Engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2012\/08\/20\/sas-scientist-of-the-year\/\">Karen Reynolds<\/a>, named the 2012 SA Scientist of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-leading gastrointestinal expert, Professor Graeme Young has been named South Australia\u2019s Scientist of the Year for 2013. Announced at the Science Excellence Awards (South Australia\u2019s premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[40,50],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-professor-graeme-young","tag-south-australias-scientist-of-the-year"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}