Clinical Trials Office Offers New Regulatory Support Services

8/30/2023

The Clinical Trials Office (CTO) is pleased to offer new regulatory support services: study activation and on-going regulatory support. We have established a new regulatory compliance team based in the…

Medicine in Motion: Edward Egelman, PhD

8/30/2023

My laboratory is focused on structural biology, and the main technique we use is cryo electron microscopy, which enables us to determine the atomic structure of many biological assemblies. These…

Norbert Leitinger, PhD, Awarded $2.5 Million to Study the Acetyl CoA Carboxylase Enzyme in Metabolic Control of Inflammation

8/23/2023

Norbert Leitinger, PhD, a professor of pharmacology and associate director of UVA's Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, was awarded a $2.5 million grant, for a project to study Acetyl…

Daniel  J. Cox, PhD, Awarded $3.5 Million for Multi-Center Study of Adults Newly Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

8/23/2023

Daniel  J. Cox, PhD, a professor of psychiatric and internal medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, was awarded a $3.5 million R01 grant from the NIH for…

Research In Motion: Mary Peace McRae, PhD

8/23/2023

"My research studies how opioids negatively impact memory and learning in people living with HIV. Having a better understanding of these cellular and molecular processes, including how opioids decrease the…

Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, MD, Leads Pioneering Research to Combat Cocaine Addiction

8/23/2023

Pioneering researchers at UVA Health are testing whether focused sound waves can help people overcome cocaine addiction, a growing problem in Virginia and elsewhere. The scientists have launched a clinical…

Mete Civelek, PhD, and Team Make Discovery About Coronary Artery Disease

8/11/2023

UVA School of Medicine researchers probing coronary artery disease – the nation’s No. 1 killer – have identified a normally protective biological process that can go wrong inside blood vessel…

Surprise COVID Discovery by Peter Kasson, PhD and Team Helps Explain How Coronaviruses Jump Species

8/11/2023

Unexpected new insights into how COVID-19 infects cells may help explain why coronaviruses are so good at jumping from species to species and will help scientists better predict how COVID-19…