Pioneering Neurodegenerative Disease Researcher Huda Zoghbi, MD, Presents Fall 2025 Anderson Lecture
10/1/2025
Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive conditions that involve the gradual damage, and ultimately death, of neurons (nerve cells) in the brain and nervous system that leads to a decline in both…
UVA Co-Hosts International Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Symposium and Progress Meeting
10/1/2025
UVA School of Medicine researchers who are leading the pursuit of new therapies for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) recently gathered on Grounds with colleagues from U.S. and European centers to…
10/1/2025
Lulu Jiang, PhD, from the UVA Department of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Yimin Zou, PhD, from UC San Diego, was awarded more than $200,000 in funding from CureAlz to investigate…
10/1/2025
Doug Bayliss, PhD, the Joseph & Frances Larner Professor, and his research group in the Department of Pharmacology, were awarded a new four-year $2.8 million grant from the National Heart…
Research in Motion: Mark Okusa, MD
10/1/2025
I specialize in kidney diseases and in particular, acute kidney injury. My research focuses on how to [better] understand mechanisms of this disorder and how to devise therapeutic options to…
9/23/2025
Sarah Ewald, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was awarded a five-year $2.3 million R35 grant renewal from the NIH National Institute of…
NIH Awards John Kim, MD, $3.2 Million to Identify Blood Protein Biomarkers for Pulmonary Fibrosis
9/23/2025
John Kim, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, was awarded a five-year $3.2 million NIH grant to identify blood protein biomarkers…
Discovery Suggests How Immune Cells May Drive Alzheimer’s, Neurological Diseases
9/23/2025
New University of Virginia School of Medicine research has revealed how and why ailing immune cells called microglia may be contributing to Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.…
