9/27/2023
Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and UVA’s Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, was awarded a $2.1 million grant to…
9/27/2023
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded two new research supplements to an existing $4 million award to investigate the role of IgE antibodies to alpha-gal in driving vascular…
Research in Motion: George Christ, PhD
9/27/2023
We're a diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers dedicated to developing regenerative medicine and tissue engineering technologies to treat craniofacial and extremity trauma... primarily for wounded warriors. —George Christ, PhD, Professor,…
In Memoriam: Honoring the Life of Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, MD, PhD
9/19/2023
It is with great sadness the School of Medicine shares news that Ferid Murad, MD, PhD, a professor emeritus who held appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology from…
9/19/2023
Julius Zhu, PhD, a professor of pharmacology, was awarded a $2 million grant for a project titled “Architectonic Analysis of Complex Cortical Circuits in Healthy and Diseased Brain.” Professor Zhu’s…
Chemotherapy Drug Could Prevent Deadly Heart Failure
9/19/2023
A chemotherapy drug used to fight bone-marrow cancer also has the potential to treat and prevent potentially deadly heart failure, a powerful new drug-screening tool developed at UVA Health suggests. The…
Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Deeper Dive into a Growing Concern
9/19/2023
A team of neonatal researchers at UVA Children’s, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, co-led by Brynne Sullivan, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics,…
Research in Motion: Melina R. Kibbe, MD
9/19/2023
The overall goal of our research laboratory is to develop novel drug eluting technologies for patients with vascular disease. One example is arterial stenting. We're developing a novel therapy based…
