UVA Researchers Discover Potential Long COVID Source
3/27/2024
UVA Health researchers have discovered a potential explanation for some of the most perplexing mysteries of COVID-19 and long COVID. The surprising findings could lead to new treatments for the…
Enhanced Melanoma Vaccine Offers Improved Survival for Men
3/27/2024
A second-generation melanoma vaccine developed at UVA Cancer Center improves long-term survival for melanoma patients compared with the first-generation vaccine, new research shows. Interestingly, the benefit of the second-generation vaccine…
Research in Motion: JoAnn Pinkerton, MD
3/27/2024
There are 55 million menopausal women, and all women go through menopause. About 80 percent have hot flashes, 25 percent debilitating, but they cause loss of work time productivity. My…
3/20/2024
Undergraduate students, Wakako Endo in the DeSimone lab and Dori Beck in the Peirce-Cottler and DeSimone labs, have received UVA Office of Citizen Scholar Development Awards for their research and…
3/20/2024
UVA researchers have discovered a potential way to predict which patients with severe COVID-19 are likely to recover well and which are likely to suffer “long-haul” lung problems. That finding…
UVA Researchers Develop Online Dashboard to Help Save Children From Deadly Diarrhea
3/20/2024
University of Virginia researchers are developing a powerful online tool to save children from deadly diarrhea by detecting outbreaks sooner and accelerating the deployment of treatments and new vaccines. Diarrhea…
Research in Motion: Jianjie Ma, PhD
3/20/2024
My laboratory research is focused on regenerative medicine, aging biology, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and cancer therapy. I interact with both surgeons, scientists and basic researchers striving to build a future…
3/13/2024
In a significant leap forward for RNA science and medicine, five schools at the University of Virginia have joined hands to inaugurate a groundbreaking collaborative center aimed at driving advancements…
