UVA White Coat Ceremony Celebrates MD Class of 2029
8/20/2025
On August 15, the School of Medicine welcomed the Class of 2029 medical students at our annual White Coat Ceremony—an exciting day that commemorates the beginning of their medical education…
Category: Education
Research in Motion: Manoj Patel, PhD
8/20/2025
We are using gene therapy techniques known as base editing [for epilepsy]; we are able to go in and correct the abnormal variant and make it into a healthy variant,…
Category: Media Highlights
8/20/2025
Jeffrey Sturek, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine, pharmacology, and biomedical engineering, was awarded a new five-year $4 million grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute…
Category: Research
8/20/2025
Ahmad Jomaa, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, and his lab were recently awarded a five-year, $2.22 million NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award…
Category: Research
AI, Full Automation Could Expand Artificial Pancreases to More Diabetes Patients
8/20/2025
Automated insulin delivery (AID) systems such as the UVA Health-developed artificial pancreas could help more type 1 diabetes patients if the devices become fully automated, according to a new review…
Category: Research
New Monoclonal Antibody Targets Deadly Sepsis
8/20/2025
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of Michigan have developed a monoclonal antibody to stop sepsis, a deadly full-body infection. The antibody also has…
Category: Research
UVA Health University Medical Center Earns Highest National Trauma Care Honor
8/20/2025
UVA Health University Medical Center has earned the highest possible designation for trauma care in the United States – recognition as a Level I Trauma Center by the American College…
Category: Clinical
UVA Health University Medical Center Earns National, State Breastfeeding Awards
8/20/2025
UVA Health University Medical Center has earned national and state awards for supporting breastfeeding parents. The medical center, which is home to UVA Health Children’s, has been redesignated as a…
Category: Clinical
UVA Colonnade Club Offers Complimentary Memberships to Newly-Hired, Full-Time Faculty
8/20/2025
The Colonnade Club is the University of Virginia’s faculty club. The goal of the club is to create connections between faculty and staff across Grounds, benefitting the University community and…
Category: Faculty
Hoos In STEM: Breaking Down Brain Cancer With Harald Sontheimer, PhD
8/20/2025
Harald Sontheimer, PhD, is the department chair, professor, mentor, biotechnology founder, and textbook author behind a recent revolution in the emerging field of cancer neuroscience: a series of breakthrough discoveries…
Category: Media Highlights
Scott Hollenbeck, MD, Featured on Good Morning America Discussing Treatments for ‘Ozempic Face’
8/20/2025
Scott Hollenbeck, MD, the Raymond F. Morgan Professor and chair of the UVA School of Medicine Department of Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial and Oral Health, was featured on Good Morning America…
Category: Media Highlights
8/20/2025
Chris Holstege, MD, a professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the School of Medicine and director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center, wrote a story for The Conversation on…
Category: Media Highlights
