Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, MD, Leads Pioneering Research to Combat Cocaine Addiction
8/23/2023
Pioneering researchers at UVA Health are testing whether focused sound waves can help people overcome cocaine addiction, a growing problem in Virginia and elsewhere. The scientists have launched a clinical…
Mete Civelek, PhD, and Team Make Discovery About Coronary Artery Disease
8/11/2023
UVA School of Medicine researchers probing coronary artery disease – the nation’s No. 1 killer – have identified a normally protective biological process that can go wrong inside blood vessel…
Surprise COVID Discovery by Peter Kasson, PhD and Team Helps Explain How Coronaviruses Jump Species
8/11/2023
Unexpected new insights into how COVID-19 infects cells may help explain why coronaviruses are so good at jumping from species to species and will help scientists better predict how COVID-19…
Research in Motion: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
8/11/2023
My laboratory works on two areas of RNA biology, both very important for human health. The first area is RNA viruses and the second area is autoimmune diseases and the…
David Kashatus, PhD, Awarded Lustgarten Foundation 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Program Grant
8/9/2023
David Kashatus, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was awarded a 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Program grant from the Lustgarten Foundation, for his…
UVA Cancer Center STRIVE Program Grows in Second Year
8/9/2023
On a recent afternoon in the lab of Kevin Janes, PhD, Cimona Hinton, PhD, familiarizes herself with a new piece of equipment: the EVOS M7000 fluorescence microscope. Tissue-sample slides placed…
Kristin Anderson, PhD, Earned K22 Transition Career Development Award
8/9/2023
Kristin Anderson, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, earned a NIH Research Career Development (K) Award in the fourth quarter of FY23. K…
8/9/2023
Jie Sun, PhD, the Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, was…
