{"id":7687,"date":"2025-04-23T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:58:14","slug":"congrats-dr-bledsoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/2025\/04\/23\/congrats-dr-bledsoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats, Dr. Bledsoe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/ajhg\/fulltext\/S0002-9297(24)00208-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7688\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/04\/xavier-bledsoe-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Congrats, Dr. Bledsoe!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who<\/strong>: Xavier Bledsoe, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department<\/strong>: Human Genetics<\/p>\n<p><strong>PI Mentor<\/strong>: Eric Gamazon &amp; Nancy Cox<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong>: How do genetic changes to gene expression affect the structure of the brain in contexts of health and disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanderbilt Impact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; <span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">My work relied heavily on Vanderbilt&#8217;s Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)- it was immensely beneficial to completing my training<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">.<\/span> &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-PhD Plans:<\/strong> Return to medical school to complete my MD training followed by clinical training in pediatric cardiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats, Dr. Bledsoe! Who: Xavier Bledsoe, PhD Department: Human Genetics PI Mentor: Eric Gamazon &amp; Nancy Cox Research: How do genetic changes to gene expression affect the structure of the brain in contexts of health and disease? Vanderbilt Impact: &#8221; My work relied heavily on Vanderbilt&#8217;s Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)- it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":7688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-student-profile"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/04\/xavier-bledsoe-e1745430966822.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}