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…
Research in Motion: Monique Vaughan, MD
8/14/2024
Approximately 25% of all women and 50% of women who have had children will go on to develop a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, such as prolapse. And we…
8/6/2024
Yogindra Raghav, a second-year PhD student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics program in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at UVA, was invited to present a research poster at the…
8/6/2024
Jim Zimring, MD, PhD, the Thomas W. Tillack Professor of Experimental Pathology, published an op-ed story in The Scientist about the importance of associate editors actively engaging in the manuscript…
Komen Supports UVA Engineering Researchers Targeting ‘Triple Negative’ Breast Cancer
8/6/2024
Through precision medicine, the University of Virginia is working toward a world in which no more pink ribbons are necessary. To that end, Susan G. Komen announced support for the…
Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD, Unveils Pioneering Research on Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
8/6/2024
Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at UVA, recently presented her groundbreaking research on Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) at the American…
Steven Munger, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study How Smell Function Varies
8/6/2024
Steven D. Munger, PhD, professor and co-director of research in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, was awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and…
