{"id":2555,"date":"2020-02-07T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/2020\/02\/mi-faculty-and-scientists-collaborate-with-unc-program-in-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:31:31","slug":"mi-faculty-and-scientists-collaborate-with-unc-program-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/2020\/02\/mi-faculty-and-scientists-collaborate-with-unc-program-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;I Faculty and Scientists Collaborate with UNC Program in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2703\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 410px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research.jpeg\" alt=\"Students conducting research in the lab at UNAN\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research-280x210.jpeg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Students conducting research in the lab at UNAN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UNC has expanded its partnership with the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Nicaragua-Le\u00f3n (UNAN) to include the development of a PhD program housed at UNAN. Many M&amp;I faculty, trainees and staff recently participated in the PhD program, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/directory\/aravinda-de-silva-phd\/\">Aravinda de Silva<\/a>, PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/directory\/ralph-baric-phd-1\/\">Ralph Baric<\/a>, PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/directory\/helen-lazear\/\">Helen Lazear<\/a>, PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/directory\/nilu-goonetilleke-phd\/\">Nilu Goonetilleke<\/a>, PhD, Laura White, PhD, and Maria Abad Fernandez, PhD. This participation includes traveling to Nicaragua, teaching courses, advising students, and potentially hosting UNAN-Le\u00f3n students at UNC.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lazear will actually be travelling to Nicaragua with Efra\u00edn Rivera-Serrano, PhD, in a few weeks to teach the virology module for this program. This module includes guest lecturers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/directory\/sarah-joseph-phd\/\">Sarah Joseph<\/a>, PhD, and Timothy Sheahan, PhD (UNC Department of Epidemiology).<\/p>\n<p>An article was recently posted through <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2020\/feb-6\/unc-program-in-nicaragua-expands-partnership-with-addition-of-phd-program?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=6\">UNC Vital Signs<\/a> regarding this partnership and the activities conducted by M&amp;I faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC has expanded its partnership with the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Nicaragua-Le\u00f3n (UNAN) to include the development of a PhD program housed at UNAN. Many M&amp;I faculty, trainees and staff recently participated in the PhD program, including Aravinda de Silva, PhD, Ralph Baric, PhD, Helen Lazear, PhD, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, Laura White, PhD, and Maria &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/2020\/02\/mi-faculty-and-scientists-collaborate-with-unc-program-in-nicaragua\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about M&amp;I Faculty and Scientists Collaborate with UNC Program in Nicaragua\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112631,"featured_media":2703,"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":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research-300x225.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1414\/2024\/04\/UNAN-Research-150x150.jpeg","featured_image_alt":"Students conducting research in the lab at UNAN","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"2020","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/tag\/2020\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}