{"id":3728,"date":"2025-08-11T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:43:18","slug":"jillian-new-and-beichen-wang-presented-at-the-140th-annual-academy-meeting-of-the-indiana-academy-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/jillian-new-and-beichen-wang-presented-at-the-140th-annual-academy-meeting-of-the-indiana-academy-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian New and Beichen Wang presented at the 140th Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jillian New, Beichen Wang, and Yuk Fai Leung attended the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianaacademyofscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Program-Book.pdf\">140th Annual Academy Meeting<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianaacademyofscience.org\/\">Indiana Academy of Science<\/a>\u00a0in Indianapolis, IN. Jillian presented her work on &#8220;Evaluating Methotrexate as a Therapeutic Agent in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa<a href=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/#\"><\/a>&#8220;. Beichen presented his work on &#8220;A zebrafish functional screen identifies hits from FDA-approved drugs for inherited retinal degeneration&#8221;. All students were well fed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8138-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8142-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_8143-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jillian New, Beichen Wang, and Yuk Fai Leung attended the\u00a0140th Annual Academy Meeting\u00a0of the\u00a0Indiana Academy of Science\u00a0in Indianapolis, IN. Jillian presented her work on &#8220;Evaluating Methotrexate as a Therapeutic Agent in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa&#8220;. Beichen presented his work on &#8220;A zebrafish functional screen identifies hits from FDA-approved drugs for inherited retinal degeneration&#8221;. 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