{"id":600,"date":"2016-09-15T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/?p=600"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:48:33","slug":"odysseus-1-award-to-dr-kodi-ravichandran-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/odysseus-1-award-to-dr-kodi-ravichandran-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Odysseus 1 Award to Dr. Kodi Ravichandran, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-601\" src=\"http:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016-164x200.jpg 164w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/membrane-biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2016\/10\/Ravi-Headshot_2_09142016.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>&#8220;Congratulations to <strong>Kodi Ravichandran, PhD<\/strong>, Harrison Distinguished Professor and\u00a0Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and\u00a0Cancer Biology, on receiving the Odysseus 1 Award, from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium. 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