{"id":10687,"date":"2021-07-01T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:40:16","slug":"jason-whitmire-phd-promoted-to-full-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/jason-whitmire-phd-promoted-to-full-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Whitmire, PhD Promoted to Full Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10688 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/07\/Jason-Whitmire.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Whitmire\" width=\"215\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/07\/Jason-Whitmire.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/07\/Jason-Whitmire-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>Dr. Jason Whitmire has been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Whitmire earned his BA in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1992, followed by his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from University of California, Los Angeles in 1998.\u00a0 He did a postdoctoral fellowship with Carl Ware, PhD at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (2000-2002).\u00a0 Dr. Whitmire worked as a Research Associate and later an Assistant Professor at The Scripps Research Institute before being recruited to the Department of Genetics at UNC in 2010.\u00a0 He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016.\u00a0 Dr. Whitmire\u2019s lab studies the underlying mechanisms that stimulate immune responses to virus infections. 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