UVA School of Medicine Researchers and Collaborators Solve 50-Year Mystery About How Bacteria Move
9/29/2022
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria are able to move. Bacteria push themselves forward…
9/22/2022
The School of Medicine has recruited Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in virology and RNA biology, to lead its Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology.…
9/15/2022
Kevin Pelphrey, PhD, the Harrison-Wood Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neurology, was awarded a $12M R01 grant from the NIH for the next 5 years for research to identify neurodevelopmental…
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, Appointed to Chair Biomedical Engineering
9/15/2022
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, an international leader in biomedical engineering and a University of Virginia faculty member since 2004, has been named chair of UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. She succeeds…
9/15/2022
It is hard to believe it has been one year since we began this wonderful journey together. On September 15, 2021, I took one of the most momentous steps in…
R. Ariel Gomez, MD, Awarded $4.3 Million NIH P50 Grant to Study the Fate of Kidney Vascular Cells
9/8/2022
R. Ariel Gomez, MD, the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Department of Pediatrics Child Health Research Center, was awarded an NIH P50 grant for more than…
8/31/2022
Gut Check: How Tiny Organisms Could Improve Everything From Sleep to Chemotherapy A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine about how the microbes in our guts regulate…
Statement on Representativeness in Clinical Trials
8/25/2022
I write to share the School of Medicine’s Statement on Representativeness in Clinical Trials that was so thoughtfully written by the Clinical Research Advisory Committee led by James P. Nataro,…
