June 24, 2016
UNC Lineberger researcher Blossom Damania, PhD, postdoctoral researcher Aadra Bhatt, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a slick trick a virus uses to spur cancerous cell growth in its host: the virus initiates a signal that mimics one of the host cell’s own signals.
July 21, 2015
In a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UNC Lineberger researchers report findings of how Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or KSHV, can inhibit a signaling pathway involved in triggering part of the early immune response to the virus.
July 14, 2015
Blossom Damania, PhD, studies how viral cancers develop, and also directs the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Global Oncology Program.
June 9, 2015
Jenny Ting, PhD, was senior author of a study that found a potential therapeutic strategy for reducing the body's typically damaging inflammatory response to severe dengue virus infection.