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John H. Bushweller, PhD and Team Accelerate Efforts to Develop New and Better Treatments for Difficult-to-treat Cancers

5/18/2023

Children’s Cancer Research Fund has awarded $250,000 to an innovative new approach to treating leukemia – blood cancer – being developed at UVA Cancer Center. The grant to John H.…

Karen Ingersoll, PhD, Awarded Funding to Develop Digital Intervention for Native Women at Risk of Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy

5/18/2023

Karen Ingersoll, PhD, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, was recently awarded the first 2 years of funding for a 5-year R61/R33 project to develop a…

Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, Awarded $3.1 Million R37 NIH MERIT Grant

5/18/2023

Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, a professor of medicine and microbiology and division head for the Department of Medicine's Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was awarded a $3.1 million R37 MERIT…

Research in Motion: Anja Bielinsky, PhD

5/18/2023

I love that I'm able to study a fundamental process in biology. Each cell in our body has about two meters of genetic material that needs to be duplicated before…

Focused Ultrasound Trial Finds Promise for Parkinson’s Patients

5/11/2023

The findings of a major international trial to test a high-tech, scalpel-free approach to treating movement problems caused by Parkinson’s disease have been published in the prestigious New England Journal…

Nobel Laureate Barry J. Marshall, MBBS, To Present the Inaugural ‘David A. Peura, MD Endowed Lecture’

5/11/2023

The Department of Medicine’s Gastroenterology Division is thrilled to host Nobel Laureate and former UVA faculty member Barry J. Marshall, MBBS, as the guest speaker for the inaugural “David A.…

Sana Syed, MD, Awarded $2.7 Million Grant to Study Methods for Predicting Future Outcomes of Crohn’s Disease in Children

5/11/2023

Sana Syed, MD, MSCR, MSDS, an associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, was recently awarded an R01 grant from the NIH providing $2,739,706 in funding to…

Ukpong B. Eyo, PhD and Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD, Research Advances Understanding of How Brain Responds to Seizures

5/11/2023

New School of Medicine findings about how the brain responds to seizures could facilitate the development of much-needed treatments for the third of patients who don’t respond to existing options.…