{"id":1111,"date":"2018-10-22T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:53:36","slug":"the-125-fund-stories-moonisah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/the-125-fund-stories-moonisah\/","title":{"rendered":"The 125 Fund Stories: Moonisah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moonisah Usman, PhD Biomedical Sciences, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My PhD project is about a disorder that affects over a third of the childhood population in the UK \u2013 obesity. Over the last three years I have worked immensely hard by collaborating with two NHS hospitals to uncover the potential cancerous effects of increased body fat in children. This year, I finally established a range of significant, compelling findings that I was able to disseminate on an international level at the prestigious 25th Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research: thanks to funding from The 125 Fund.<\/p>\n<p>I was absolutely ecstatic when I found out I had received the funds. I was extremely excited that a financial barrier had been lifted and I could go abroad and network with leading researchers in my field.\u00a0 I do not come from a privileged background and so the funds really meant a lot to me \u2013 my parents were extremely proud as well.<\/p>\n<p>My research has benefitted hugely from the exposure at the conference. My abstract was published in an open access journal and I have been able to share this work with our collaborators \u2013 strengthening our ties and considering what we could investigate next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/telephone-campaign-team-5.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1114 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/telephone-campaign-team-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We are thrilled to be running another telephone campaign this November. To celebrate, we are sharing with you The 125 Fund Stories, a selection of testimonials from the grateful beneficiaries of your generous donations. For more information, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/support-us\/the-telephone-campaign\">westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/support-us\/the-telephone-campaign<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonisah Usman, PhD Biomedical Sciences, 2019 My PhD project is about a disorder that affects over a third of the childhood population in the UK \u2013 obesity. Over the last three years I have worked immensely hard by collaborating with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-125-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}