Damania Honored as AAAS Inductee | Newsroom - UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine

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Vice Dean for Research Blossom Damania, PhD, was among the 2020 inductees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honored this autumn successful idiosyncratic aft a two-year hiatus owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Blossom Damania, PhD, signs the Book of Members astatine the AAAS induction ceremony.

This fall, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Blossom Damania, PhD, the Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and subordinate of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, astatine an in-person ceremonial for scholars who had been elected to the Academy successful 2020, during the archetypal twelvemonth of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an honorary nine and argumentation enactment founded successful 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and different Founding Fathers of the United States. The Academy elects exceptionally accomplished individuals and engages them successful advancing the nationalist good.

Dr. Damania signed the Book of Members astatine an Induction Ceremony held successful Cambridge, Ma., wherever precocious elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders successful the public, nonprofit, and backstage sectors gathered successful 2022.

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