{"id":47845,"date":"2023-11-09T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=47845"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T19:23:58","slug":"center-takes-on-parasitic-diseases-with-global-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/center-takes-on-parasitic-diseases-with-global-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Center takes on parasitic diseases with global reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;text-container-wide&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ctegd.uga.edu\/\">Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases<\/a>\u00a0(CTEGD) was founded in 1998 to bring together the University of Georgia\u2019s expertise in parasitology research. With more than 25 laboratories from eight departments in four UGA colleges, CTEGD is a leading parasitology research center known around the world for its interdisciplinary approach to tackling diseases of poverty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students join CTEGD to make a real-world impact on public health through research. Its NIH-funded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/training.ctegd.uga.edu\/\">Training in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases<\/a>\u00a0program allows them to pursue their passion and gain skills in molecular biology, entomology, biochemistry, cellular biology, genetics, bioinformatics and more, preparing them to tackle similar big, unsolved problems in their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;text-container-wide&#8221;] The\u00a0Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases\u00a0(CTEGD) was founded in 1998 to bring together the University of Georgia\u2019s expertise in parasitology research. With more than 25 laboratories from eight departments in four UGA colleges, CTEGD is a leading parasitology research center known around the world for its interdisciplinary approach to tackling diseases of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/center-takes-on-parasitic-diseases-with-global-reach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Center takes on parasitic diseases with global reach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":49249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"watch-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"post_medium":[315],"publications":[],"authors":[417],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[840],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-47845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-disease","post_medium-watch","authors-donna-huber","video_credit-center-for-tropical-and-emerging-global-diseases","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=47845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}