{"id":57464,"date":"2021-12-02T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=57464"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:17:10","slug":"garcia-named-diversity-speaker-award-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/garcia-named-diversity-speaker-award-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia Named Diversity Speaker Award Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56825\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/11\/Garcia.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/11\/Garcia.jpeg\" alt=\"Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD-diversity-speaker-award-recipient\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/11\/Garcia.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/11\/Garcia-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/j-victor-garcia-martinez-phd\/\">Victor Garcia<\/a>, PhD, was named the 2022 recipient of the International Society for Antiviral Research Diversity Speaker Award. UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Craig Cameron, PhD, received the society\u2019s inaugural award for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR) created the Diversity Speaker Award to recognize an outstanding scientist of any group historically underrepresented in its society. Through this award, ISAR seeks to honor an accomplished scientist and increase the society\u2019s diversity for the benefit of all its members and the entire field of antiviral research.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the ISAR announced that its Diversity Speaker Award recipient for 2022 will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/j-victor-garcia-martinez-phd\/\">J. Victor Garcia, PhD<\/a>, professor of medicine in the UNC Department of Medicine, director of the International Center for the Advancement of Translational Science, and member of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Garcia has led seminal research over many years in the field of infectious diseases, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/researchers-reverse-hiv-latency-important-scientific-step-toward-cure\/\">HIV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2021\/02\/antiviral-proves-effective-at-preventing-treating-covid-19-in-lab\/\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2021\/11\/garcia-named-diversity-speaker-award-recipient\/\">UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Garcia, PhD, was named the 2022 recipient of the International Society for Antiviral Research Diversity Speaker Award. UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Craig Cameron, PhD, received the society\u2019s inaugural award for 2021. Last year, the International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR) created the Diversity Speaker Award to recognize an outstanding scientist of any group historically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/garcia-named-diversity-speaker-award-recipient\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Garcia Named Diversity Speaker Award Recipient\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":56825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2,523],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-57464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","category-promoting-health-equity","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garcia Named Diversity Speaker Award Recipient | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/garcia-named-diversity-speaker-award-recipient\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garcia Named Diversity Speaker Award Recipient | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Victor Garcia, PhD, was named the 2022 recipient of the International Society for Antiviral Research Diversity Speaker Award. 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