of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico The addition of the PhD program is an exciting step for the UNC-UNAN partnership and has already paved the way for UNAN to add other PhD Programs in Global Health and Occupational Health. Aravinda’s Reflections; Contact; Welcome to the de Silva Lab! Apart from research he enjoys Yoga and Meditation. View publication.

Clinically dengue can present as a serious febrile illness or a severe, life-threatening … de Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil Mariano Garcia Blanco, Duke Univ. Department of Microbiology and Immunology. UNC medicine professor Aravinda de Silva and epidemiologist Ralph Baric found that antibodies to the Dengue virus—antibodies the body creates after a Dengue infection to fight off future infections—also have some limited ability to fight the Zika virus. Contact Us University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Medical Center, UTMB USA : Aravinda de Silva, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Scott Halstead, Uniformed Services Univ. After completing his thesis on dengue antiviral he joined Prof. Aravinda de Silva, Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-CH as a Post-Doc studying specific properties and mechanisms by which human antibodies enhance dengue disease particularly the role of virus maturation stage on dengue pathogenesis. Contact; UNC Directory; Maps & Directions; Find a Doctor; Careers; UNC Health Care Citrix 160 Dental Circle. — Aravinda de Silva, PhD, MPH. Trends in Parasitology. This current study will build off of a pilot study funded by UNC’s Office of Research. Since then, in her lab at UNC, she has collaborated with fellow Carolina researchers Ralph Baric, Ph.D., Mark Heise, Ph.D., and Aravinda de Silva, Ph.D., departments of epidemiology, genetics and microbiology and immunology, to study viral and host mechanisms that control flavivirus pathogenesis. Congratulations to Aravinda de Silva for being selected as a recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Mentor Award from UNC’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. of Health Sciences, USA: Scott Weaver, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA Carlos Sariol (Acting Secretary), Univ. More than 75 faculty members with appointments in a variety of departments and units across the University of North Carolina campus work with the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases. Mailing address: UNC SOM Office of Research CB# 7000, G060 Bondurant hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7000 Fax: 919-966-7564 Hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday - Friday Inside the Student Union, there was standing room only for presentations by public health experts, featuring Dr. Colleen Bridger from Orange County, Dr. Randall Williams from the Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Aravinda de Silva from UNC School of Medicine. 2010; 2011; 2012; 5 QUESTION ICONS; BUILDINGS & LOCATIONS; GRAD STUDENT POLOROIDS

Aravinda’s Reflections Learn about Dr. de Silva’s beginnings at UNC and his experiences in a constantly changing scientific environment My wife, Amy, and I moved from New Haven to Chapel Hill in 1998 to start our first “real” jobs. Mauricio Nogueira, Univ. By connecting individuals who are working on global health-related research, the Institute serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary collaboration. Aravinda de Silva – desilva@med.unc.edu

Tel: (919)962-4915. Aravinda de Silva Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 109 connections Aravinda de Silva, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Shipping Address: CB # 7292. De Silva and Baric, a professor with a dual appointment in the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, are now working with vaccine developers at two pharmaceutical companies to test the effectiveness of potential dengue vaccines now in clinical trials. This campus-wide award “recognizes a faculty member or advisor who has engaged in … 9024 Burnett Womack. Jessica Lin, Steven Meshnick, David Saunders (2014). Currently more than half of the world’s population is at risk of infection by one or more of the 4 serotypes of dengue virus. Fax: (919)843-6924. Professor9004 Burnett-WomackCB#7292919-962-4891 Research Dengue is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that is spreading explosively in many parts of the world. Stringer will work with UNC colleagues Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, and Aravinda de Silva, PhD, as well as Filemon Bucardo, PhD, and other collaborators at the University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Léon. Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7292. Find Find. Learn about our flavivirus research, access our publications, and get to know us using the links above Viruses are extremely well-designed to efficiently infect their hosts. I was joining the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Amy was joining the Department of Medicine. A cohort study of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in pregnancy and associations with uteroplacental blood flow and fetal anthropometrics in Kenya.