{"id":5553,"date":"2026-08-31T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:28:31","slug":"biology-professor-receives-nih-award-for-fertility-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/08\/31\/biology-professor-receives-nih-award-for-fertility-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology professor receives NIH award for fertility research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University Biological Sciences professor Dr. Guo-Zhang Zhu has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) R16 grant to support his research project, &#8220;Mll4 as an Epigenetic Regulator in Mammalian Spermatogenesis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project will investigate the critical role of the epigenetic regulator Mll4 in mammalian sperm development and examine how Mll4-mediated gene regulation contributes to male fertility. In addition to advancing understanding of reproductive biology, the grant will support undergraduate student involvement in cutting-edge research.<\/p>\n<p>Through the project, students will gain hands-on laboratory experience while developing scientific, critical-thinking, and professional skills. The integration of research and education will help prepare the next generation of scientists while expanding opportunities for undergraduate research at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Science congratulates Zhu on this significant achievement and the national recognition of his research program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University Biological Sciences professor Dr. Guo-Zhang Zhu has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) R16 grant to support his research project, &#8220;Mll4 as an Epigenetic Regulator in Mammalian Spermatogenesis.&#8221; The project will investigate the critical role of the epigenetic regulator Mll4 in mammalian sperm development and examine how Mll4-mediated gene regulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,77,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-faculty-scholars","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-guo-zhang-zhu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}