UVA’s Manning Institute Reaches Major Construction Milestone: Final Steal Beam Placed
10/7/2025
The University of Virginia celebrated a key milestone on October 6, in the construction of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology’s 350,000-square-foot facility at Fontaine Research Park with…
Research in Motion: Ani Manichaikul, PhD
10/7/2025
My group performs computational research using large scale human data sets to identify genetic and molecular factors contributing to risk of chronic respiratory diseases. —Ani Manichaikul, PhD, Associate Professor of Genome…
Mohammadreza ‘Mo’ Ganji Wins Gold Student Research Award at 2025 Diabetes Technology Meeting
10/1/2025
PhD candidate Mohammadreza "Mo" Ganji was selected as the Gold Student Research Award winner at the 2025 Diabetes Technology Meeting. His award-winning abstract, “The Glycemia Risk Index (GRI) Predicts Diabetes…
Pioneering Neurodegenerative Disease Researcher Huda Zoghbi, MD, Presents Fall 2025 Anderson Lecture
10/1/2025
Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive conditions that involve the gradual damage, and ultimately death, of neurons (nerve cells) in the brain and nervous system that leads to a decline in both…
UVA Co-Hosts International Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Symposium and Progress Meeting
10/1/2025
UVA School of Medicine researchers who are leading the pursuit of new therapies for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) recently gathered on Grounds with colleagues from U.S. and European centers to…
10/1/2025
Lulu Jiang, PhD, from the UVA Department of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Yimin Zou, PhD, from UC San Diego, was awarded more than $200,000 in funding from CureAlz to investigate…
10/1/2025
Doug Bayliss, PhD, the Joseph & Frances Larner Professor, and his research group in the Department of Pharmacology, were awarded a new four-year $2.8 million grant from the National Heart…
Research in Motion: Mark Okusa, MD
10/1/2025
I specialize in kidney diseases and in particular, acute kidney injury. My research focuses on how to [better] understand mechanisms of this disorder and how to devise therapeutic options to…
