Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫

Boshamer Distinguished Prof & Vice Dean for Research & CSO @UNC_SOM, @UNC. Research Interests: Virology, Cancer Biology, Immunology. @damania.bsky.social

[Patrick Malone, MD PhD @patricksmalone]

an underappreciated reason NIH funding is so durable: it's less about Congress believing in science, and more about the jobs it supports in lawmakers' home states and districts.

universities and academic medical centers are often among the largest local employers. a vote to cut NIH is a vote to cut jobs back home.

there's a lesson here for biotech. we spend a lot of time explaining why people should be excited about what excites us (cool science, new modalities). we should spend more time making sure our success shows up in things they already care about: jobs, their communities, affordable medicines, national security.

biotech's political future will depend as much on how widely it shares the benefits of innovation as on how much innovation it produces.

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

Thanks to @AinslieLab for the graphic

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

NIH funding creates medicines, jobs, and economic growth

[Cancers MDPI @Cancers_MDPI]

📢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
🔗https://t.co/aUWfeoV60S

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@adforu So sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences.

[samyounglab @SamYoungLab]

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.

[Robert Ferris, MD, PhD @RobertFerrisMD]

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.

[ACSR @ACSRbiobank]

HIV Cancer #research at its best from ACSR friend and colleague, Dirk Dittmer @LabDittmer and ACSR Principal Investigator, Johann Schneider et al! https://t.co/uUmc74WNQ5 #ResearchMatters #EndHIVAIDS #Endcancer @unc_lcn

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@theodora_nyc @PaulBieniasz Big Congratulations, Paul @PaulBieniasz !
So very well deserved!

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@VirusesImmunity @TIME Big Congrats, Akiko!

[Emily Porter, M.D. @dremilyportermd]

Every female physician felt this in her core.

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@bryancmounce Congrats, Bryan! Well deserved!

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@jkarijolich Congrats, John!

[Michael Baym @baym]

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.

https://t.co/8IaL1xAQUW

[Rebecca Skalsky @rebecca_skalsky]

For all the herpesvirologists- reminder to register for IHW2024- in Portland this summer!
https://t.co/qKlWhmY6la

[Ben Gewurz @BenGewurz]

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 https://t.co/0tfoNvz2AS
Registration is now open. Abstract submission deadline is March 4

[UNC Lineberger @UNC_Lineberger]

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. https://t.co/5RDqBVVpLg

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@HarmitMalik @SinghviLabGlia @phataks @ChandaLab06 @CrinaNimigean @msu_ru @Chakrapani_lab @accardilab @RaduAricescu @pippomancia @LucyRForrest @ZS_biophys @soragnilab @SunLab19 @alicia_guemez @c_eroglu @jonykipnis Good decision. Definitely can’t throw away pedas and barfi

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

@SizunJ Very sorry for your loss, Sizun. Elliott was a wonderful scientist and a big supporter. He will be greatly missed.