Sallie Permar MD PhD
Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician Scientist at /DHVI. My lab's goal: Develop vaccines to prevent perinatal #CMV and #HIV.
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Sallie Permar: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?
Today.duke.edu 72d 1 tweets
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the question of where to turn for solid information has never been more important.  Many Duke experts are being approached now for their expertise and insight. But where do they turn for guidance and the latest...
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Sallie Permar MD PhD Thanks to those who work hard to keep us #COVID-informed! 72d
Op-Ed: We are losing ground on every other disease while fighting COVID-19
Los Angeles Times 76d 4 tweets
Research has been paused on everything but COVID-19, which could have serious consequences on cures for other diseases for generations to come.
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Sallie Permar MD PhD "Losing ground on every other disease while fighting COVID19": my take on #COVID19 's impact on medical research, how we recover, how we prevent such staggering losses in the future 76d
Trial of Coronavirus Vaccine Made by Moderna Begins in Seattle
Denise Grady - Nytimes.com 111d 5 tweets
Healthy volunteers will test different doses of the first vaccine to find out if it is safe.
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Sallie Permar MD PhD News of the 1st #COVID19 vaccine trial starting earlier this week didn't get enough attention in my newsfeed - a #vaccine is the pathway that will return our lives to normal. And may we never question the need for vaccines again 110d
Specificity and effector functions of non-neutralizing gB-specific monoclonal antibodies isolated from healthy individuals with human cytomegalovirus infection
bioRxiv 172d 1 tweets
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common congenital infection, and the leading nongenetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in newborns globally. A gB subunit vaccine administered with adjuvent MF59 (gB/MF59) is the most efficacious...
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Sallie Permar MD PhD Preprint alert from student on the specificity and function of CMV gB-specific antibodies implicated as protective in partially effective CMV vaccine trials! #PhysicianScientists 172d
We Need More Doctors Who Are Scientists
Nytimes.com 287d 69 tweets
It’s in everyone’s benefit if physicians participate in research.
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Sallie Permar MD PhD Less than 1% of all physicians currently pursue research towards our next gen cures and prophylactics. We. Need. More. Doctors. Who. Are. Scientists. 286d
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Sallie Permar MD PhD Is there any job better than championing #pediatric health research? We are on the hunt for a Program Manager for the Duke Pediatrics Research Scholars Program to help build the next generation of pediatrician scientists! 795d
Why does CMV get so much less news coverage than Zika — despite causing far more birth defects?
HealthNewsReview.org 873d 3 tweets
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Sallie Permar MD PhD "You guys, we have a Zika here already. It’s called CMV" explains why an endemic birth defect virus is largely ignored while Zika got the limelight, and why it matters for our children... 871d