Research in Motion: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
8/11/2023
My laboratory works on two areas of RNA biology, both very important for human health. The first area is RNA viruses and the second area is autoimmune diseases and the…
David Kashatus, PhD, Awarded Lustgarten Foundation 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Program Grant
8/9/2023
David Kashatus, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was awarded a 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Program grant from the Lustgarten Foundation, for his…
UVA Cancer Center STRIVE Program Grows in Second Year
8/9/2023
On a recent afternoon in the lab of Kevin Janes, PhD, Cimona Hinton, PhD, familiarizes herself with a new piece of equipment: the EVOS M7000 fluorescence microscope. Tissue-sample slides placed…
Kristin Anderson, PhD, Earned K22 Transition Career Development Award
8/9/2023
Kristin Anderson, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, earned a NIH Research Career Development (K) Award in the fourth quarter of FY23. K…
8/9/2023
Jie Sun, PhD, the Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, was…
UVA Researchers Awarded Pharmacology T32 Grant Extending Nearly Five Decades of Continuous Funding
8/9/2023
For nearly five decades, UVA School of Medicine’s Training Program in Pharmacology has been funded continuously by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences in the form of a Pharmacological…
Research in Motion: Jayakrishna Ambati, MD
8/9/2023
My team and I tackle something called inflammation and how it promotes aging in diseases like Alzheimer's, macular degeneration, and diabetes, and we've been able to create molecules that can…
8/1/2023
New Alzheimer’s research from UVA Health School of Medicine suggests that enhanced light sensitivity may contribute to “sundowning” – the worsening of symptoms late in the day – and spur…
