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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…

Synthetic Blood Platelets Might Be as Good as the Real Thing to Stop Bleeding

9/4/2024

SelSym, a company co-founded by University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor Thomas Barker, PhD, is developing a product to stop uncontrolled bleeding caused by traumatic injury or surgery. Findings published…

Tajie Harris, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study How the Immune System Benefits the Brain

9/4/2024

Tajie Harris, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was awarded a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, titled “Caspase-8 mediated…

Thomas Loughran, MD, and Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, Awarded $3.4 Million to Study Genomic Architecture of Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia

9/4/2024

Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, director of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, have been awarded a five-year, $3.4…

Research in Motion: Jay Fox, PhD

9/4/2024

Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites.…