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UNC’s Ralph Baric has long been a leader in virus research. Now, the world is listening.

For years Dr. Ralph Baric studied viruses that hardly anyone was paying attention to. Now, as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic, it is looking to him and his research as the basis for treatments and a vaccine. Baric, 66, a researcher and professor in the department of epidemiology and department of microbiology and immunology at UNC, saw this crisis coming. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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