With colorectal cancer a growing concern among younger people, the American Cancer Society has endorsed two new types of stool tests to encourage people to get screened while also recommending…
Multi-Institutional Study Uncovers Genetic Control Circuit That Shapes Key Immune Cells
A new study published in the journal Blood reveals how a previously unrecognized genetic regulatory circuit helps control the development and function of monocytes and macrophages—two types of white blood…
Ken Walsh, PhD, and Research Team Earn $3.3 Million to Study Sex Differences in Heart Failure
Ken Walsh, PhD, Lockhart B. McGuire Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and resident member of the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, has earned a…
Discovery Evolves Our Understanding of How Dormant Cells Awaken
School of Medicine scientists have discovered an important trigger that allows dormant cells, such as in cancer or hibernating animals, to awaken – and they’ve named it SNOR, after a…
UVA Partners With Federal Medical Center in Nigeria to Elevate Global Kidney Care
A partnership between the University of Virginia Health System, categorized as a supporting center, and the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Umuahia, Nigeria, an emerging center, has reached a new…
On April 14, John Fritz Angle, MD, professor in the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, was awarded the first-ever Dr. Barry T. Katzen Master Clinician Award during the Society…
