{"id":4793,"date":"2025-04-14T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:44:57","slug":"dr-bing-lu-awarded-nih-grant-to-study-alcohols-metabolomic-link-to-knee-osteoarthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2025\/04\/14\/dr-bing-lu-awarded-nih-grant-to-study-alcohols-metabolomic-link-to-knee-osteoarthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bing Lu Awarded NIH Grant to Study Alcohol\u2019s Metabolomic Link to Knee Osteoarthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2025\/04\/bing_lu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2025\/04\/bing_lu-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"bing lu\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2025\/04\/bing_lu-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2025\/04\/bing_lu.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-1\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[70rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(12)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div data-message-author-role=\"user\" data-message-id=\"7843e87f-34a3-431a-b289-bbc07011cbc0\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\">\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden items-end rtl:items-start\">\n<div class=\"relative max-w-[var(--user-chat-width,70%)] bg-token-message-surface rounded-3xl px-5 py-2.5\">\n<div class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap\">Dr. Lu is a Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. He was just awarded a 2-year grant R21AR085243 from NIH\/NIAMS (National Institute of Arthritits and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases) titled \u201cMetabolomic Signatures of Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis\u201d for $402,022. This project will assess whether metabolomic signatures of alcohol intake predict the subsequent risk of knee OA and examine how these signatures influence imaging markers of knee OA.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex absolute start-0 end-0 flex justify-end\">\n<div class=\"touch:-me-2 touch:-ms-3.5 -ms-2.5 -me-1 flex items-center p-1 select-none focus-within:transition-none hover:transition-none duration-300 group-hover\/turn-messages:delay-300 pointer-events-none opacity-0 motion-safe:transition-opacity group-hover\/turn-messages:pointer-events-auto group-hover\/turn-messages:opacity-100 group-focus-within\/turn-messages:pointer-events-auto group-focus-within\/turn-messages:opacity-100 has-data-[state=open]:pointer-events-auto has-data-[state=open]:opacity-100\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lu is a Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. He was just awarded a 2-year grant R21AR085243 from NIH\/NIAMS (National Institute of Arthritits and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases) titled \u201cMetabolomic Signatures of Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis\u201d for $402,022. This project will assess whether metabolomic signatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 04:27:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}