{"id":3277,"date":"2016-01-12T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/nephrology-hypertension\/people\/donna-bunch\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:35:09","slug":"donna-bunch","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/nephrology-hypertension\/people\/donna-bunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Bunch, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Bunch\u2019s research focuses on dissecting the role of B cells and the autoantibodies they produce in autoimmune diseases affecting the kidney. She investigates the immune dysregulation that triggers production of pathogenic autoantibodies and how these autoantibodies interact with immune cells (B cells, neutrophils, monocytes and dendritic cells) to generate microparticles or cause the release of cytokines and other cellular factors that regulate the network of cells comprising the immune system. 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