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Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-Adapted Cancer Organelles Symposium Showcases Research Progress and Priorities

8/14/2024

UVA’s Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) recently hosted its first annual symposium, sharing updates on major projects and work to improve research inclusivity as the program…

New BRAIN Initiative Research Grant to Improve Novel Tools for the Study of Neural Circuits

8/14/2024

Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of novel tools for the study…

New Insights About How Heart Cells Regenerate May Lead to New Drugs to Fix Damaged Hearts

8/14/2024

New research from UVA Health scientists seeking to identify drugs to regenerate tissue after a heart attack is highlighting the promise of their approach. The team, led by Jeff Saucerman,…

Yaohua Yang, PhD, and Collaborators Publish Article on DNA Methylation and Cancer Risk in Nature Communications

8/14/2024

Yaohua Yang, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, and his research team published a landmark article on tissue-specific DNA methylation and cancer risk in the journal Nature…

Research in Motion: Monique Vaughan, MD

8/14/2024

Approximately 25% of all women and 50% of women who have had children will go on to develop a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, such as prolapse. And we…

BIMS Graduate Student Yogindra Raghav Invited to Speak at Gordon Research Seminar on Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation

8/6/2024

Yogindra Raghav, a second-year PhD student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics program in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at UVA, was invited to present a research poster at the…

Jim Zimring, MD, PhD, Publishes Article in The Scientist: A Call for Associate Editors’ Active Engagement in Manuscript Review

8/6/2024

Jim Zimring, MD, PhD, the Thomas W. Tillack Professor of Experimental Pathology, published an op-ed story in The Scientist about the importance of associate editors actively engaging in the manuscript…

Komen Supports UVA Engineering Researchers Targeting ‘Triple Negative’ Breast Cancer

8/6/2024

Through precision medicine, the University of Virginia is working toward a world in which no more pink ribbons are necessary. To that end, Susan G. Komen announced support for the…