Fourth-Year PhD Student Luke Vass Receives NIH Award for Research Focused on Treating Leukemia
9/9/2024
Luke Vass, a fourth-year PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program co-advised by Thomas Loughran, Jr., MD, and Todd Fox, PhD, has been selected for a NIH F99/K00 Predoctoral…
9/9/2024
Patricia Rodriguez-Lozano, MD, MS, director of the Women's Heart Care Program in the UVA Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine and radiology, has been awarded a…
9/9/2024
Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a faculty member of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a $2 million, five-year R35 grant…
Out-of-Body Experiences Can Profoundly Increase Empathy
9/9/2024
Out-of-body experiences, such as near-death experiences, can have a “transformative” effect on people’s ability to experience empathy and connect with others, a scientific paper from University of Virginia School of…
Cause, Potential Treatment Identified for Persistent COVID-19 Lung Problems
9/9/2024
Arthritis drugs already available for prescription have the potential to halt lingering lung problems that can last months or years after COVID-19 infections, new research from the School of Medicine…
Research in Motion: Nassima Tiouririne, MD
9/9/2024
Currently we are investigating the use of focused ultrasound on targeting the insular cortex in the brain to assess its role in cocaine craving. With focused ultrasound and transcranial magnetic…
Third Summer of Success for the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center STRIVE Program
9/4/2024
The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Short-Term Research Initiative for Visiting Educators (STRIVE) program enjoyed a third year of success this summer. The program invites professors from historically Black colleges and…
Scott Zeitlin, PhD, Advances Understanding and Treatment of Huntington’s Disease
9/4/2024
Since UVA neuroscientists discovered the link between the brain and the immune system in 2015, researchers across UVA Health and worldwide have been investigating ways of leveraging this connection to…
