{"id":2694,"date":"2025-06-11T01:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:26:37","slug":"congratulations-dr-cao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/news\/2025\/congratulations-dr-cao\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Cao!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Group member Cyrus successfully defended his PhD dissertation on \u201cFrom molecular interactions to tailored formulations for antivirals and virus diagnostics\u201d. Throughout his PhD, Cyrus achieved significant milestones by working on several projects and collaborating with many research groups. Cyrus effectively represented the Velev group at several national and international conferences and symposiums and mentored many undergraduate and master students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Cyrus starts his new corporate journey with Baebies, we wish him the very best in all his future endeavors. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2695\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Cyrus-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group member Cyrus successfully defended his PhD dissertation on \u201cFrom molecular interactions to tailored formulations for antivirals and virus diagnostics\u201d. Throughout his PhD, Cyrus achieved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"first_name":[],"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}