FOCUS in Sound

Our guest on this edition of FOCUS In Sound is Dr. Blossom Damania, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2006, Blossom was named a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease in support of her research into the role of signaling proteins in the pathogenesis of viral-associated cancers such as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or KSHV. She is also a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Research Scholar, and has received major support from the V Foundation, the American Herpes Foundation, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Heart Association.