Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett (born 1986) - "[Dr. Ralph Steve Baric (born 1954)], who served on Corbett’s thesis committee at UNC." [HN01NQ][GDrive]
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Nationality American
Alma mater North Carolina State University
Scientific career Fields : Epidemiology
Institutions : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis : Inhibitors of host transcription block Sindbis virus replication (1982)
Ralph Steven Baric (born 1954) is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Baric's work involves coronaviruses.[1] Baric has warned of emerging coronaviruses presenting as a significant threat to global health, due to zoonosis.[2]
Baric has published multiple articles and book chapters on the epidemiology and genetics of various viruses, including norovirus,[3][4][5] and coronaviruses,[6][7] as well as potential treatments for viral diseases.[8][9]
In 2015, with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, he published an article titled "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence," which describes their work in generating and characterizing "a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone."[10]
In 2020, Baric contributed to establishing the official nomenclature and taxonomic classification of SARS-CoV-2.[11]
Zoonotic viruses represent a potentially rich source of new emerging pathogens in humans, yet little information is available concerning the molecular, genetic and evolutionary mechanisms that regulate the establishment and dissemination of such a virus within a newly adopted host. Baric’s group is utilizing molecular, genetic and biochemical approaches to decipher the complex interactions between the virion and cell surface molecules that function in the entry and cross species transmission of positive strand RNA viruses. Using a highly species specific strain of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a model system has been developed to study virus cross species transmission under conditions that may be present in human xenograph recipients. Due to the lack of suitable organ donors, xenotransplantation will likely become the treatment of choice for end-stage organ failure in humans. Considerable debate exists as to whether this medical practice will result in new pathways for zoonotic virus adaptation to the human host. Baric’s group has demonstrated that xenotropic host range variants (MHV-H2) of MHV rapidly evolve in their experimental model suggesting that xenograph recipients may represent an optimum environment for virus cross species transmission. Viruses appear to bridge the species barrier by punctuated evolution and positive Darwinian natural selection at the molecular level resulting in virus recognition of phylogenetic homologues of the normal receptor for docking and entry into human cells.
Research projects currently study the evolutionary mechanisms that occur in viruses when subjected to changing environmental conditions. Baric’s team is also identifying the sites of virus-receptor interaction that regulate MHV-H2 entry into human cell lines and the mutations in the virus which expand host range specificity. Projects are also available to study virus cross species transmission in vivo in a small animal model for xenotransplantation.
Triangle Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021
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Host and Moderator: Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic – and Preventing it!”
Ralph Baric, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine; UNC-Chapel Hill
About the Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history took place April 4-6, 2018, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Symposium events offered perspectives from the vantage points of medicine, health, social sciences and the humanities. Speakers included leading experts in epidemiology, virology, medicine, communications, literature, history, ethics, policy and other fields.
Sponsors included UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Libraries, UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and RTI International.
April 1918
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Session Host and Moderator: Ralph Baric, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine; UNC-Chapel Hill
“Unraveling Influenza Virus Pathogenic Mechanisms; from the Early Flu Hunters to Today”
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute; Professor, Microbiology; Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Developing Better Vaccines: Right Around the Corner?”
Barney S. Graham, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
https://sph.unc.edu/nciph/1918-flu-symposium/
influenza pandemic symposum
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 – FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
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Speakers
Session Host and Moderator: Allison Aiello, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
“The 1918 Flu Pandemic: A Worldwide Historical Perspective”
Howard Markel, MD, PhD, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
“Narrative Frames and Contagion: How They Shape Our Collective Response to Pandemics”
Priscilla Wald, PhD, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English, Duke University
“The Historical Context of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in North Carolina and the South”
James L. Leloudis, PhD, MA, Professor, History; Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina; Director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC-Chapel Hill