Ling Qi, PhD, Awarded $4.1 Million to Investigate Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
8/20/2024
The National Institute on Aging awarded a prestigious $4.1 million R01 grant to a pioneering, multi-principal investigator team led by Ling Qi, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of…
Bloomberg Businessweek Highlights Potential of Focused Ultrasound
8/20/2024
An article in Bloomberg Businessweek* featured the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, a non-profit started in 2006 by Neal Kassell, MD, former professor and co-chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. Jeff Elias,…
Research in Motion: Scott Heysell, MD, MPH
8/20/2024
Our work is in infection. We work in the infections of poverty like tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, for instance, is one of the leading killers from infection worldwide. So we work to…
From Lab to Real Life: Innovative Approaches to Precision Medicine
8/14/2024
Whether collaborating with the National Football League to study hamstring injuries, addressing the data gap in female musculoskeletal modeling research or simulating the effects of estrogen levels on muscle regeneration,…
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,…
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…
