D'Angelo Russell is one of the few players who got a chance to play with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Russell started his career with the LA Lakers when Bryant was on his way out of the NBA. Now, he's a part of the Lakers organization once again as he helps James contend for another title.

Russell is in his second stint with the Lakers this season. He was traded midway through last season from the Minnesota Timberwolves, as the California-based team wanted to move on from Russell Westbrook. This season, he's suited up for 61 games, averaging 18 points, 3.0 rebounds and 6.2 assists.

At the start of his career, the Lakers were honoring Bryant by giving him a season-long farewell tour. Russell was still able to get a few lessons from the "Black Mamba".

Both Bryant and James were often compared to each other when they were both in the league, but they had different approaches to the game. Russell experienced both and he recently shared what he encountered:

While Bryant took the game seriously and was always focused on the job, James, on the other hand, wanted to keep the locker room with a positive atmosphere.

Although different, both were effective as the "Black Mamba" and "King James" have both won titles in their own right.

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The 2023-24 season has been a wild ride for D'Angelo Russell. Since the start of the season, he's continued to compete well and help the Lakers position themselves for the playoffs. Seeing as how he's played with two legends of the game, many would expect Russell to choose between James and Bryant as his inspiration.

However, he mentioned that 2008 champion Rajon Rondo is the inspiration for him to stay competitive:

Russell shared that Rondo is one of the players he saw with extreme competitiveness. Furthermore, the Lakers guard talked about playing against the former NBA star. During their matchups, "DLo" was outmatched, but he added it helped him become a competitive athlete in the process.

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Golden State Warriors superstar point guard Steph Curry isnt considered a big-time trash talker. However, according to the two-time MVP, he occasionally engages in respectful trash talk when hes in an offensive rhythm.

During a CBS Mornings interview with Jericka Duncan, Curry was asked about his most memorable trash-talking exchange. The four-time NBA champion recounted a time when he warned an opponent about his incoming offensive onslaught.

According to Curry, after informing his defender that he was about to go off, he nailed four consecutive 3-pointers. However, he noted that he doesnt consider it legitimate trash talk, as he was respectful.

Steph Currys story is reminiscent of famous tales involving Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird, one of the most famous trash-talkers in NBA history. Bird was known to tell his opponents exactly how he planned to score on them before doing so.

One of the most memorable instances occurred when he predicted his game-winning shot against the Seattle SuperSonics on Dec. 30, 1986. With the game tied 102-102, the three-time MVP notified Sonics forward Xavier McDaniel that he would hit a game-winning jumper over him.

According to McDaniel, Bird even showed him the exact spot on the court where he planned to shoot. Afterward, he promptly nailed a fadeaway game-winner in McDaniels face to take a 104-102 lead with 2.0 seconds remaining.

Bird also reportedly told McDaniel that he didn't mean to leave two seconds on the clock. Nonetheless, the Celtics held on to win 104-102, with Bird finishing with a game-high 27 points.

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Later in his CBS Mornings interview, Steph Curry was asked about the most savage trash talk hes ever endured. The 35-year-old turned back the clock to high school, recounting a harsh fan chant.

According to the 10-time All-Star, a rival teams fan section ruthlessly called him out for over-depending on his father, former NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry.

However, given his illustrious basketball career, it seems safe to say that Curry didnt let the chant affect him too severely.

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The New Orleans Police Department released body-worn camera footage Friday of an ongoing use-of-force investigation involving an officer who on Jan. 25 fired three times at an armed teen suspect.

Later linked to 46 crimes, the 15-year-old boy rammed police vehicles with a stolen car in an unsuccessful attempt to flee the scene in Fontainebleau, police said.

"I'm incredibly grateful to God Himself that no NOPD officer was shot or killed," New Orleans police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said at a media briefing. "And in this event, fortunately the young man was taken into custody without any injury to him from gunfire."

The youth sustained a few scrapes when he fled the stolen vehicle and an officer tackled him to the ground. He was treated at Children's Hospital, police said.

The dozens of crimes the teen allegedly committed in Orleans Parish include an aggravated assault, at least two attempted carjackings and a slew of break-ins.

Shortly after midnight on Jan. 25, officers found the stolen white Jeep used in those burglaries near the intersection of Earhart Boulevard and College Court. In the driver's seat, a teen appeared to be passed out, a firearm visible in his waistband.

Body-worn camera footage reveals officers surrounding the vehicle on foot and boxing it with police vehicles as another officer shined a flashlight at the suspect through the Jeep's window.

"Open the door! Open the f---ing door!" one officer demanded.

The suspect briefly held up his hands before placing them on the wheel and pressing the gas, smashing into police vehicles multiple times as officers instructed him to get out of the car with increasing urgency, several with weapons drawn.

"Do not reach for the gun! I will shoot!" an officer yelled.

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Body-worn camera footage shows an officer firing three times over a roughly 45-second interval as the suspect vehicle bears down on him, hindered by a chain-link fence. The suspect eventually flees the vehicle through a rear passenger window and is tackled by another officer, scraping his head in the process, police said.

NOPD's Force Investigation Team is investigating allegations of excessive use of force in the incident, Kirkpatrick said. Investigators were present on the scene, as was the independent police monitor. The federal consent decree monitoring team was notified.

The Force Investigation Team released video footage of the incident to comply with transparency mandates in the federal consent decree.

Per NOPD policy, deadly force may be used only in limited circumstances, which include preventing the escape of a subject if "that escape would pose an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another person."

The teen suspect was booked on one count of resisting an officer with force or violence, one count of juvenile in possession of a firearm and three counts of aggravated assault upon a peace officer with a motor vehicle. NOPD did not release his name.

The 27-year NOPD veteran who fired his weapon has returned to full duty after being briefly reassigned to desk duty, which is protocol after a critical incident.

"It is an amazing amount of restraint that our officers practiced," Kirkpatrick said. "You saw the video. You yourself saw that gun and how easily it was accessible... plus the car being used to try to ram. So obviously, very high risk, and I was very pleased with the restraint of our officers."

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Editors Note:This article was originally published by Blaze Mediaon March 7, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission.

The Sunshine State is now the test case of whether anti-DEI laws can have a meaningful effect in turning back these neo-racist programs.

The University of Florida boldly advanced to the front of the academic line last week by closing its DEI office. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is the ideology that that depicts an America locked into a permanent struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors, with African-Americans in the starring role as the forever oppressed and the LGBTQ+ contingent in the lead supporting role.

Perhaps what the University of Florida just did could be called DEI-vestment. It definitely has a financial component. The university says it will now reallocate about $5 million per year that it had previously earmarked for racial shakedowns, i.e. DEI personnel and programs.

Even if the administrative apparatus is gone at the University of Florida, a good many of its supporters and former employees remain.

While the University of Florida deserves high praise for its initiative, it didnt come up with this reform all on its own. Floridas State Board of Education voted in January to eliminate DEI programs in 28 state colleges. And in November, the board of governors of the states university system called for the same rescission at Floridas 12 public universities. These bureaucratic bodies acted at the urging of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is an outspoken opponent of the DEI ideology.

Most of these educational institutions have been slow-walking their compliance or looking for ways to evade their legal responsibility to amend their policies. The University of Florida under its president, former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, was simply the first to step up. The immediate result was the elimination of 13 positions, including that of chief diversity officer. That office alone had a budget of more than $400,000 in the 2022-23 academic year.

If I may offer some free advice to Sasse: Dig deeper. Eliminating those 13 positions is a fine start, as is the ending of 15 other DEI-based administrative appointments. The translation of that second category is faculty members who get paid extra for their DEI work, which, one suspects, consist mostly of fitting into a valued identity group that the DEI chiefs wanted to be more conspicuous on campus.

But DEI on most campuses is something like the green anacondas and other exotic snakes that have found a home in Floridas inland waters and proliferated there, throttling the life out of native species. The DEI anaconda, like its reptile brethren, hides in the recesses and isnt easily done away with. Even if the administrative apparatus is gone at the University of Florida, a good many of its supporters and former employees remain. Will they content themselves with playing by the rules of civil rights law and the universitys legitimate educational mission? Sasse should keep his eyes open.

This story matters because many states have passed laws or taken other steps to uproot DEI programs in their public colleges and universities. Bills have been introduced in 33 states and have become laws in 13 of them. The University of Florida is now the test case of whether such laws can have a meaningful effect in turning back these neo-racist and ideology-driven programs.

Proponents of such reform face not only the careerists who staff the programs but much of the higher education establishment. The mere existence of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education testifies to how well established DEI is, and naturally this association is summoning its allies to the cause.

Defenders of DEI argue that free speech is trampled if DEI is defunded. This is especially notable since one of the major activities of DEI offices is the suppression of everyone elses free speech.

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Peter Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars and author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.

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Using the regime complex concept, a researcher sheds new light on the broader institutional and legal framework influencing the governance of international food assistance, showing that different regimes take part in its shaping.

World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On this trajectory, the United Nations goal to eradicate hunger by 2030 appears increasingly unattainable. New research at McGill University shines the spotlight on a significant piece of the puzzle: international food assistance.

With no global treaty in place, food aid is guided by a patchwork of international agreements and institutions. Using the concept of a regime complex, a study published in theJournal of International Trade Law and Policy examines those rules and the systems that shape them. Rather than create a new entity to solve the problem, the findings point to a paradigm shift in the existing systems. Rethinking the dominant discourse among institutions is crucial to working towards zero hunger, posits author Clarisse Delaville, a second-year doctoral student atMcGillsFaculty of Law.

There are two main regimes that govern global food assistancethe trade regime and the food security regime. I encourage a stronger commitment from both regimes to implement a human-rights based approach, in order to question the prominent discourse on food trade regimes, which paints food assistance as a distortion in trade that ought to be minimized, says Delaville.

The research offers a new perspective on the governance of international food assistance by employing the regime complex concept to navigate the intricate web of laws and institutions involved By revealing how different regimes contribute to the evolution of food assistance, the research underscores the need for a holistic approach that bridges gaps between existing frameworks. The insights provided not only enrich the academic dialogue but also serve as a guide for policymakers and stakeholders striving to enhance the effectiveness and fairness of international food aid efforts.

Reference: A regime complex for food assistance: international law regulating international food assistance by Clarisse Delaville, 31 October 2023, Journal of International Trade Law and Policy. DOI: 10.1108/JITLP-06-2023-0032

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But even as it explored the future, Discovery never left behind the rest of Trek. In fact, it made more Trek possible. There would be no Star Trek Universe without Star Trek: Discovery, Kurtzman tells Den of Geek. It was the first one in the door. It took all the knocks, but it also carved all this new ground.

It did indeed take knocks. The shows initial viewers didnt know what to make of the new look, with blue uniforms and a sleek ship design, nor of Discoverys storytelling style, the first Trek series to truly abandon episodic structure for a fully serialized season-long narrative.

However, the reaction to Discoverys changes made way for the second Star Trek renaissance, with the most and best series in production since the 1990s. Without Discovery, there would not be the revival series Picard, the kids show Prodigy, the comedy of Lower Decks, or the unbridled imagination of Strange New Worlds. That last point is particularly true, as Strange New Worlds spins directly out of Discovery, as the latter introduced Ethan Pecks Spock, Anson Mounts Pike, and Rebecca Romijns Number One.

During our chat, Kurtzman explains that the beauty of the current Star Trek universe is that theres something for every kind of fan, whether its Discovery or another series: There are many subsets of the Trek fandom and many different things that different people like. Kurtzman embraces the complexity of the franchise fan base as an opportunity for different forms of storytelling.

The question that we always ask ourselves when were doing any Star Trek show is Why are we putting it in that particular timeline? And the answer cant ever just be Because we havent done it before, he says. It has to be, Well, theres a very specific story thats going to be suited to be told in that particular timeline.

Our biggest thing has honestly been we dont ever want our Star Trek shows to feel repetitive. We dont want you to think that by watching Discovery, you shouldnt watch any of the other shows because youre getting everything from that one show. Each show is different, Kurtzman continues. So for us, its not about doing one show that pleases everybody because thats the surefire way to please nobody. Its more about doing a bunch of different shows that speak to specific sections of the demographic.

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Sidelined by football's governing body, the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup tournament faded into obscurity. Now, a film executive produced by Venus and Serena Williams seeks to restore its rightful place in history as one of the most significant events ever held.

In 2024, womens football is one of the worlds fastest growing sports.

However, this hasn't always been the case as, after World War II, women were banned or marginalised for playing the beautiful game - which is one of the many reasons that not much is known about the Womens World Cup in Mexico in 1971.

"Copa 71, a new documentary, aims to close this gap in awareness.

Through a compelling blend of rich archival footage and interviews with key figures and players from the tournament, the film explores the remarkable history of the event.

Notably, the final match between Mexico and Denmark garnered the highest attendance in the history of female sports.

Trudy McCaffrey, a former England football player, vividly recalls the physical sensation of stepping onto the field in front of more than 100,000 spectators at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium.

It was just a wave of noise. And you could hear it from the dressing room. And it was the drums. I could feel the drums thudding in my body. That's how loud they were. And it just went on and on, and on and on, all the way through the matches, these drums. And when you walked out onto the pitch, the sound just hit you."

In the documentary, players for Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy also look back to August 1971, when they were celebrated for their ball skills and treated like superstars. A far cry from their home countries, where most of them were forbidden from playing on football pitches and were reduced to practising in public parks instead.

Directed by Rachel Ramsey and James Erskine, and executive produced by tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams as well as USA's Women's World Cup-winning striker Alex Morgan,the film is set for release on 8 March in the UK.

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In a new study, people experiencing homelessness with a pet documented their lives in photos and participated in interviews, revealing their experiences and potentially informing support initiatives. Gemina Garland-Lewis of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues present this project in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 13, 2024.

Having a pet while experiencing homelessness can boost physical and mental health and provide social benefits. However, it can pose unique challenges, such as making it difficult to access medical care, shelters, and other services at facilities that restrict pet entrance. Often, owners choose to forgo services in order to remain with and care for their pet, and many face harassment from people perceiving them as "unfit" for pet ownership.

Proposed efforts to address these barriers assert the importance of modifying public perceptions of this population. To explore how such change could be implemented, Garland-Lewis and colleagues conducted a Photovoice projecta research method that invites community members to take photos that can help deepen understanding of a certain issue and drive change. They recruited Seattle-area pet owners experiencing homelessness; a total of 19 participants of varied ages, genders, and living situations captured their daily lives in more than 900 images.

After reviewing the photos and interviewing participants, the researchers identified key themes: the mental and physical health benefits of the human-animal bond, the importance and strength of the bond itself, and the bond serving as motivation for daily activities and positive changes, such as staying sober or finding housing.

The project also reaffirmed known challenges faced by this population. Participants shared their own recommendations for improved services and policies, such as pet food banks and better public education about service animal laws.

The photos were exhibited to more than 500 people, including policymakers, service providers, and the public. Some housed viewers reported positive changes in their attitudes about homeless community members with pets.

The researchers say that this project increased empathy and boosted the potential for efforts to support people experiencing homelessness and their pets, especially efforts addressing health and housing.

The authors add: "Participants experiencing homelessness with a pet created over 900 photographs during this study. Collectively, their images, stories and themes deepen our understanding of homelessness with pets, leading to increased empathy and potential for policies that benefit the health of both people and their pets during times of housing insecurity."

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March 11 (SeeNews) - Romanian stock indices ended in red on Monday, as freight forwarder Transport Trade Services [BSE:TTS] paced blue-chip decliners, data from the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB, indicated.

The total equity turnover of the BVB increased to 41.26 million lei ($9.1 million/8.3 million euro) on Monday, from 27.47 million lei on Friday, BVB data showed.

Shares of blue-chip lender Banca Transilvania [BSE:TLV] inched up by 0.15% to 27 lei in the session's largest trading turnover of 9.47 million lei.

Blue-chip oil and gas group OMV Petrom [BSE:SNP] saw its shares decrease by 1.09% to 0.635 lei in the day's second largest turnover of 7.38 million lei.

Transport Trade Services was the top blue-chip decliner on Monday, shedding 5.56% and closing at 25.5 lei in the day's third largest trading turnover, of 4.97 million lei. The company bought back 4,900 of its shares at an average price of 28.46 lei per share between March 4 and March 8, it said in a report filed with the BVB on Monday. In February, TTS shares ranked twelfth on the list of the most traded shares listed on the BVB, representing 2.29% of the total value of transactions registered by shares included in the bourse's Premium category.

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BET is the first index developed by BVB and represents the reference index for the local capital market. BET reflects the performance of the most traded companies on BVBs regulated market, excluding financial investment companies (SIFs). It now includes 20 companies.

BET-TR is the first total return index launched by BVB. It is based on the structure of market reference index BET. BET-TR tracks the price changes of its component shares and is adjusted to also reflect the dividends paid by constituent companies.

BET-FI is the first sector index launched by BVB and reflects the price changes of SIFs and of other assimilated entities.

BET-BK was designed to be used as a benchmark by asset managers and other institutional investors.

BET-NG is a sector index which reflects the evolution of all the companies listed on BVBs regulated market included in the energy and related utilities sector. The maximum index weight a company can hold is 30%.

BET-XT tracks the price changes of the 25 most traded companies listed on BVBs Regulated Market, including SIFs.

BET-XT-TR is the total return version of BET-XT index, which includes the 25 most traded Romanian companies listed at BVB.

ROTX is an index developed by BVB together with Vienna Stock Exchange. It tracks, in real-time, the price changes of the blue-chip shares traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

BET AeRO is the first index for the AeRO market developed by BVB which reflects the price performance of the representative companies listed on the AeRO market that meet the liquidity and free-float market capitalization criteria. It is a free-float market capitalisation-weighted index, with the maximum weight of 15% for an index constituent.

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A molecular "snapshot" of a protein can be critical to understanding its function. Scientists at Stanford and NYU have published and investigated a new structure of the protein LAG-3 which could enable the development of new cancer treatments.

By Erin Ross

Some cancerous tumors hijack proteins that act as "brakes" on our immune system and use them to form a sort of shield against immune recognition. Immunotherapy treatments have been created that turn off these "brakes" and allow our body to attack foreign-looking cancer cells. To further advance such treatments, researchers at Stanford University and New York University have published a new structure of one of these brake proteins, LAG-3. Their work contains key details of the molecule's structure, as well as information about how the LAG-3 protein functions.

Although over a dozen immunotherapies targeting LAG-3 are in development, and one is already FDA approved, knowledge of LAG-3's structure and function has been incomplete.

"Given the amount of time and resources being put into developing therapeutics that target LAG-3, it is astounding that we don't yet have a full understanding of how this protein functions," said Jennifer Cochran, the Addie and Al Macovski Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of bioengineering, and co-senior author on the study detailing LAG-3, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Getting a clear image of a protein might not seem like a big deal, but when it comes to proteins, form often begets function. If you know what a protein looks like at the atomic scale, you can begin to understand how it interacts with other molecules and design experiments to further deduce how it works. Studies like these are crucial to developing drugs that can optimally block their target's function.

Proteins like LAG-3, called immune checkpoints, exist to stop our immune system from attacking things they shouldn't. In theory, our immune system should naturally recognize tumor cells as foreign. But a checkpoint protein shield can give cancer cover.

Current immunotherapies aren't chemical drugs, they're lab-manufactured antibodies that attach to certain parts of these checkpoints, and essentially turn them off. Once the checkpoint is turned off, our immune system can recognize and target the cancer again.

There are already approved antibody treatments that target two checkpoint proteins: CTLA-4 and PD-1. Both turn off our immune systems but in different ways. Because CTLA-4 and PD-1 were the first two checkpoint proteins found, they are quite well studied, and different approaches to inhibiting them for cancer therapy earned scientists the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

LAG-3 seems to work in an entirely different way. Scientists hope that those differences might make it a better or complementary target to treat certain types of cancer, said Jack Silberstein, the Stanford immunology PhD student who co-led the work.

Because of that, Silberstein said, "there was all this excitement in the field. Groups rushed to make antibodies against LAG-3, without knowing entirely how LAG-3 or those antibodies functioned."

Silberstein and colleagues, including those in Stanford's ChEM-H Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, began working on LAG-3's structure in 2019. A structure of LAG-3 was published by a different group in 2022 providing an initial glimpse of the protein, but it lacked crucial detail around sugar molecules that are key to LAG-3's function, and detailed information on how the LAG-3 structure related to its biological activity.

When Silberstein first started this project, "I quickly realized why there was no published structure. It's a tremendously difficult protein to work with."

And the technique Silberstein used to get the structure, called X-ray crystallography, is extremely finicky. First, Silberstein had to grow a crystal made entirely out of LAG-3 protein. Then, in collaboration with Irimpan Mathews at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, they fired X-ray beams at the crystal to create a 3D image of the molecule.

LAG-3 is a spindly, flexible protein, so it's difficult to get the molecules to stack in an orderly way. Silberstein estimates he made more than 10,000 crystals, of which 3,000 were fired with X-rays before the team finally solved the structure.

"It was a very intense, grind-it-out-for-three-years, bang-your-head-against-the-wall kind of thing," Silberstein said.

But it paid off. The team's structure confirmed that LAG-3 exists as a dimer, with two LAG-3 molecules coming together to form the functional checkpoint protein. The sugar residue that was elusive in previous structural efforts is a key element in the LAG-3 dimer interface and helps promote a different orientation of the LAG-3 protein.

With the structure described, colleagues at New York University, including MD, PhD student Jasper Du and pathology Assistant Professor Jun Wang co-led critical experiments further elucidating LAG-3's function. Other NYU colleagues, including Kun-Wei Chan and Xiang-Peng Kong, helped conduct electron microscopy studies to detail disruption of dimer formation by LAG-3 antibodies.

Additional work by the team uncovered, for the first time, that an antibody that has been used for close to 20 years to demonstrate therapeutic efficacy in animal tumor models blocks the activity of LAG-3 by binding to the interface between two LAG-3 molecules, disrupting LAG-3 from forming its functional dimer. Intriguingly, LAG-3 antibodies in clinical development bind to other areas of the protein, away from this dimer interface.

There will never be just one "cure," because cancers are all different and involve a number of diverse biochemical pathways. Silberstein and Cochran envision a future where a tapestry of surgical, chemical, and immunological treatment approaches are employed, driven by basic science discoveries and medical innovations. Additional treatments targeting LAG-3 may very well be a part of that picture.

Additional Stanford co-authors are Jessica Frank, BS '22 in bioengineering, MS '23 in computer science; Irimpan Mathews, lead scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; graduate students Yong Bin Kim, Phillip Liu, and Grayson Rodriguez; and Daniel Fernandez, director of crystallography at Sarafan ChEM-H. Additional co-authors are from New York University.

Cochran is also the senior associate vice provost for research and professor by courtesy, of chemical engineering. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Cardiovascular Institute, the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and a faculty fellow of Sarafan ChEM-H.

This work was funded by Stanford Bio-X, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship, National Science Foundation graduate fellowships, a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Stanford Molecular Biophysics Training Program, a Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering, the NIH Melanoma Research Alliance, the V Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the NYU Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and the Emerson Collective Cancer Research Fund.

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