Olivia Sears, MD, Receives a Focused Ultrasound Preclinical Award
3/17/2026
Olivia Sears, MD, a resident in the Department of Surgery and member of the Tsung-Zhang-Ruff research group, has received a one-year, $150,000 award from the Focused Ultrasound (FUS) Foundation and…
3/17/2026
Anas El Fathi, PhD, assistant professor with the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology, received a Career Development Award grant totaling nearly $1 million from Breakthrough T1D to develop…
Severe COVID-19, Flu Facilitate Lung Cancer Months or Years Later, Research Shows
3/17/2026
Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease’s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health’s Beirne B.…
3/17/2026
A new $2.2 million grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences has been awarded to Tianpeng Zhang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and…
Research in Motion: Chiara Fabris, PhD
3/17/2026
I'm a biomedical engineer by training, and my work focuses around the development of algorithms to support the management of diabetes. — Chiara Fabris, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral…
UVA School of Medicine Climbs in National Research Funding Rankings
3/17/2026
The University of Virginia School of Medicine’s cutting-edge research program has climbed to No. 36 nationally in total funding from the National Institutes of Health, a new analysis from the…
UVA Long COVID Discovery Advances in STAT Madness Tournament
3/9/2026
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have advanced to the second round of a nationwide contest that pits elite research institutions against each other to crown 2025’s biggest biomedical…
Isabelle Derré, PhD, Awarded $3.6 Million NIH Grant to Research Chlamydia
3/9/2026
Isabelle Derré, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was awarded a new five-year $3.6 million grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy…
