BIMS Students Receive Their First Lab Coats
4/3/2024
The School of Medicine celebrated our first-year BIMS students at the UVA Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BIMS) Lab Coat Ceremony on March 29. This event marks the transition to…
3/27/2024
The SOM Office for Research is soliciting projects for the Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP). The MSSRP is a summer research experience offered to our medical students as an…
Bijoy Kundu, PhD, and Mark Quigg, MD, Receive Grant for Imaging Epilepsy
3/27/2024
Bijoy Kundu, PhD, and Mark Quigg, MD, received a $100,000 grant on March 13 from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation to improve imaging technology for epilepsy patients. Epilepsy affects 1.6…
Multiple Unsafe Sleep Practices Found in Most Sudden Infant Deaths
3/27/2024
There were multiple unsafe sleep practices at play in more than three-quarters of Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths reported in 23 jurisdictions between 2011 and 2020, a new study reveals. The…
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…
