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UVA Researchers Earn $2.6 Million to Develop Low-Field MRI Lung Imaging

10/7/2025

Researchers at the University of Virginia’s Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging are the recent recipients of a four-year NIH grant totaling approximately $2.6 million, which will support the development…

William A. Petri, Jr., MD, PhD, and Girija Ramakrishan, PhD, Earn $3.2 Million to Study Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for C. Difficile

10/7/2025

One of the most common hospital-acquired infections in the U.S. is C. difficile infection (CDI), caused by a highly contagious bacterium that leads to diarrhea and colitis. It is estimated…

UVA’s Manning Institute Reaches Major Construction Milestone: Final Steal Beam Placed

10/7/2025

The University of Virginia celebrated a key milestone on October 6, in the construction of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology’s 350,000-square-foot facility at Fontaine Research Park with…

Research in Motion: Ani Manichaikul, PhD

10/7/2025

My group performs computational research using large scale human data sets to identify genetic and molecular factors contributing to risk of chronic respiratory diseases. —Ani Manichaikul, PhD, Associate Professor of Genome…

Mohammadreza ‘Mo’ Ganji Wins Gold Student Research Award at 2025 Diabetes Technology Meeting

10/1/2025

PhD candidate Mohammadreza "Mo" Ganji was selected as the Gold Student Research Award winner at the 2025 Diabetes Technology Meeting. His award-winning abstract, “The Glycemia Risk Index (GRI) Predicts Diabetes…

Pioneering Neurodegenerative Disease Researcher Huda Zoghbi, MD, Presents Fall 2025 Anderson Lecture

10/1/2025

Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive conditions that involve the gradual damage, and ultimately death, of neurons (nerve cells) in the brain and nervous system that leads to a decline in both…

UVA Co-Hosts International Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Symposium and Progress Meeting

10/1/2025

UVA School of Medicine researchers who are leading the pursuit of new therapies for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) recently gathered on Grounds with colleagues from U.S. and European centers to…

Lulu Jiang, PhD, and Colleague Receive CureAlz Award for Research to Protect Synapses in Alzheimer’s Disease

10/1/2025

Lulu Jiang, PhD, from the UVA Department of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Yimin Zou, PhD, from UC San Diego, was awarded more than $200,000 in funding from CureAlz to investigate…