In Memoriam: Honoring the Life of Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, MD, PhD
9/19/2023
It is with great sadness the School of Medicine shares news that Ferid Murad, MD, PhD, a professor emeritus who held appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology from…
9/19/2023
Julius Zhu, PhD, a professor of pharmacology, was awarded a $2 million grant for a project titled “Architectonic Analysis of Complex Cortical Circuits in Healthy and Diseased Brain.” Professor Zhu’s…
Chemotherapy Drug Could Prevent Deadly Heart Failure
9/19/2023
A chemotherapy drug used to fight bone-marrow cancer also has the potential to treat and prevent potentially deadly heart failure, a powerful new drug-screening tool developed at UVA Health suggests. The…
Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Deeper Dive into a Growing Concern
9/19/2023
A team of neonatal researchers at UVA Children’s, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, co-led by Brynne Sullivan, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics,…
Research in Motion: Melina R. Kibbe, MD
9/19/2023
The overall goal of our research laboratory is to develop novel drug eluting technologies for patients with vascular disease. One example is arterial stenting. We're developing a novel therapy based…
Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, Presents the 2023 John F. Anderson Distinguished Lecture
9/12/2023
Title of Lecture: "Crispr Biology and Technology: What's Ahead for Genome Editing" Presented by: Jennifer Doudna, PhD, Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,…
Date: Oct 2, 2023 - Oct 2, 2023
Start Time: 4:00 pm
End Time: 5:00 pm
9/12/2023
Mami Taniuchi, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division, was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to explore the…
Research in Motion: Xinyu Zhou, PhD
9/12/2023
My research focuses on the role of ion channels in the calcium homeostasis in the heart, as well as a potential function of chromatin positioning and a gene regulation. —Xinyu…
