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Shannon Moonah, MD, Awarded an R01 Grant from the NIH for Wound Healing Research

8/25/2022

Shannon Moonah, MD, ScM, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, was awarded an R01 grant from the NIH to study mucosal wound healing. The mucosal epithelial barrier becomes…

In Memoriam: Gratitude for Two Pioneering Cardiologists, Carlos R. Ayers, MD, and Lawrence R. Burwell, MD

8/25/2022

Carlos R. Ayers, MD, an early proponent of preventive measures to avoid heart disease, died July 26; and Lawrence R. Burwell, MD, who pioneered the use of coronary balloon angioplasty…

SOM Committee on Women in Medicine and Science Thanks Carol Manning, PhD, for Eight Years of Service

8/25/2022

After eight years of service to the School of Medicine Committee on Women in Medicine and Science (CoWIMS) and, in the past year, leadership of the strategic planning process for…

Firas El Chaer, MD, Publishes on Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies and Recipients of Cellular Therapies

8/25/2022

Firas El Chaer, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, published an article in the American Society of Hematology's Blood on August 18,…

JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, Writes About Hormone Therapy in Menopause

8/25/2022

JoAnn V. Pinkerton, MD, a "UVA School of Medicine professor of obstetrics and gynecology, wrote an editorial for the journal Menopause entitled "Reassuring data regarding the use of hormone therapy…

Cancer Training T32 Awarded, Marking the Fifth T32 with Greater than 44 Years of Continuous Funding

8/25/2022

The Cancer Training T32 was recently awarded $1,577, 285 by the National Cancer Institute in support of years 46-50 of the training program. This marks the fifth T32 in the…

Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Discovery on How Digestive Tract, Lungs and Liver Form Improves Understanding of Cancer

8/25/2022

A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications…

Train Your Mind, Change Your Life

8/24/2022

The brain is an incredible learning machine. So good in fact, that it retains thought and behavior patterns even when they no longer serve us well. Through the practice of…

Date: Sep 7, 2022 - Sep 7, 2022

Start Time: 3:30 pm

End Time: 4:30 pm