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Breanne Massung, B.S. |
Breanne Massung was born in Pittsburgh, PA, lived briefly in Gainsville, FL, and at the age of 7 years moved to Snellville, GA. She entered the University of Georgia in 2001 majoring in biology. Her interest in research began the summer after her freshman year at UGA when she worked as a student lab aid at the CDC. In an experimental pathology lab, she was involved in the use of immunohistochemistry for the detection of Hepatitis C virus in chimpanzee liver biopsies. Breanne spent the following year conducting student research in a biochemistry and molecular biology lab at UGA where she was interested in replication mechanisms in cancer cells and worked to subclone the gene for Xenopus telomerase reverse transcriptase. The following summer she returned to the CDC as a lab technician and worked with the sequencing of mutant strains of Hepatitis B Virus that have evolved to be resistant to current vaccination. During the summer following her junior year of college, Breanne pursued her personal interest in art and spent over two months in the Tuscan hill town of Cortona studying art history, paper-making, Italian, and book arts.
After receiving her BS in biology in 2005, Breanne joined the Mind-Body program as a research coordinator and is involved in studying the behavioral effects of interferon-alpha treatment in Hepatitis C infected persons. In 2007, while remaining involved with the Mind-Body team, Breanne also began studies at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She is currently studying to become a RN and plans to pursue a masters degree in nursing to be a Nurse Practitioner with specialties in acute care and infectious disease. |
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