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NIH funding creates medicines, jobs, and economic growth
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
5 Nov 2024
📢Excited to share the first publication of the #SpecialIssue “Oncogenesis of Lymphoma”:
Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (HHV8)-Related Lymphomagenesis
by Caroline J. Yu @carolinejyu_ and Blossom Damania @DamaniaLab
🔗mdpi.com/2072-6694/16/21/369…
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
1 Jul 2024
Big news. We are moving.
I have officially started as the Director of the Gene Therapy Center, and as a Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill. I am returning “home” to lead the Center where I earned my PhD.
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
19 Jun 2024
I am honored and excited to join UNC Lineberger and UNC health, to make an impact across the Triangle and state of NC, reducing the burden of cancer and advancing research and cancer treatment! Amazing team and strong legacy of directors Earp, Sharpless and Pagano.
19 Jun 2024
Robert Ferris (@RobertFerrisMD), MD, PhD, named executive director of UNC Lineberger, and UNC system chief of oncology services, effective October 1st, announced @UNC_SOM Dean Wesley Burks, MD. @UNC_Health_Care unclineberger.org/news/rober…
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
13 May 2024
HIV Cancer #research at its best from ACSR friend and colleague, Dirk Dittmer @LabDittmer and ACSR Principal Investigator, Johann Schneider et al! unclineberger.org/news/kapos… #ResearchMatters #EndHIVAIDS #Endcancer @unc_lcn
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
15 Mar 2024
Every female physician felt this in her core.
14 Mar 2024
“I’m a Minneapolis based pilot for Delta airlines.”
“Tell me what a typical workweek is like for you as a stewardess.”
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
7 Mar 2024
Scientific research has been the engine of American economic growth for over half a century. From lifesaving medicines to the device you are reading this on. With these bills, congress takes one more step towards ceding that leadership abroad.
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
1 Mar 2024
For all the herpesvirologists- reminder to register for IHW2024- in Portland this summer!
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
2 Feb 2024
Come join us for the 3rd Joint Symposia on Epstein-Barr Virus, Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus and related agents in Boston, June 29-July 3. Meeting website ebv.ksvirus.org
Registration is now open. Abstract submission deadline is March 4
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
26 Jan 2024
The 13th annual @UNC-Duke Viral Oncology and AIDS Malignancy Symposium featured talks and poster presentations on the latest research and insights in the field. unclineberger.org/news/sympo…
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
3 Jan 2024
The @UNC School of Medicine community is extremely saddened by the passing of Dr. Ada Adimora, a trailblazing physician-scientist, mentor, and compassionate friend and advocate for so many people in North Carolina and around the world.
unchealth.info/26t050QnwYN
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
3 Jan 2024
.@HIVptn Remembers Ada Adimora: A champion for Science and Justice. mailchi.mp/hptn.org/hptn_rem…
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
2 Jan 2024
I am incredibly sad to learn that my friend and colleague Dr. Ada Adimora, passed away yesterday. Ada was an amazing leader who's contributions to HIV/AIDS were many. In 2020 she delivered the Kass lecture at IDWeek. idweek.org/videos/2020-kass-… May she rest in peace.
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
22 Dec 2023
Our scientists put on their creative caps for this one - the lab of Chuck Perou, PhD, took the top honors for this year’s holiday door decoration contest. Runner-ups were the labs of Wendell Yarbrough, MD, MMHC/Natalia Isaeva, PhD, and @DamaniaLab, PhD. go.unc.edu/linebergerholiday…
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18 Dec 2023
Cutting federal funding for basic research will hurt the US economy | The Hill thehill.com/opinion/congress…
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Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 retweeted
18 Dec 2023
Hello! I am honored to be opening this chapter at @theNCI! We have incredible opportunities to make a real impact and change the landscape of #cancer. With @POTUS’s support, we are poised to advance progress for everyone affected by cancer. #CancerMoonshot 1/3
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17 Dec 2023
RT @ValerieJHorsley: My dear friend @BrettLindenbach passed away on Saturday morning. Hug your loved ones and show up for people in your li…
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