David Shonka, MD, First-Authors Consensus Statement Defining Advanced Thyroid Cancer
5/11/2022
“This may be the first time that an expert group of physicians has attempted to define what advanced thyroid cancer is,” said David C. Shonka, Jr., MD, Associate Professor, Head…
Child Health Research Center’s Research Symposium
5/10/2022
The Child Health Research Center will host the 34th Annual “Research Day” Symposium, the first in-person event since 2019. Featuring keynote speaker James P. Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, Benjamin Armistead…
Date: May 26, 2022 - May 26, 2022
Start Time: 7:30 am
End Time: 3:00 pm
5/5/2022
Clinical Trials Day is celebrated every year on May 20 to commemorate the day in 1747 when James Lind started his randomized clinical trial on scurvy and laid the foundation…
Date: May 19, 2022 - May 19, 2022
Start Time: 2:00 pm
End Time: 5:00 pm
UVA Urology Welcomes First Research Fellow
5/4/2022
UVA Urology welcomes their first ever research fellow, Bard Kennedy! This fellowship is specifically targeted to fourth year medical students who want research experience before applying to residency.
Rachel Moon, MD, Studied Unsafe Sleep Practices Leading to Infant Deaths
5/4/2022
Dr. Rachel Moon has spent decades researching sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, and trying to promote safe sleep. It’s a difficult topic to study, but the UVA professor of…
Lee Ritterband, PhD, Studied Insomnia in Black Women
5/4/2022
In an article published in JAMA Psychiatry, Lee Ritterband reported with researchers from other institutions on the results of an insomnia study. Ritterband and his team created an online sleep…
Discovery May Lead to Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treatment
5/4/2022
UVA researchers John Bushweller, professor of molecular physiology and biological physics and Kwon-Sik Park, associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology completed a study that might help design future…
Call for Nominations: Annette Lightner Research Award
4/27/2022
In rheumatology, autoimmune diseases, and rheumatoid arthritis. [ Proposals due 5/13.] The Annette Lightner Fund is an endowment, the income from which supports medical research in rheumatology, autoimmune diseases, and…
