{"id":10313,"date":"2021-03-25T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:37:22","slug":"dr-martin-ferris-promoted-to-associate-professor-in-the-department-of-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-martin-ferris-promoted-to-associate-professor-in-the-department-of-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Martin Ferris Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3030 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/10\/marty-ferris.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ferris, PhD\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Martin Ferris Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ferris earned a Bachelor of Science in 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global pandemic that engulfs us.\u00a0 In recent years, he also expanded his work to TB and to food allergy, making crucial contributions to these two fields of research.\u00a0 Dr. Ferris\u2019s new appointment is effective January 1, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Martin Ferris Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ferris","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Martin Ferris Promoted to Associate Professor in 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