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Jennifer Sasson, MD, Receives National News Coverage for Clinical Trial Using Asthma and Eczema Treatment to Improve Survival of COVID-19

8/25/2022

Jennifer Sasson, MD's clinical trial indicating a treatment for asthma and eczema may improve survival rate for patients hospitalized with moderate to severe COVID-19 has received widespread national news coverage.…

iPRIME Seeks Grant Proposals for Research in Immunomedicine in Cardiovascular Diseases

8/25/2022

The Prominence-to-Preeminence (P2PE) STEM Targeted Initiative, Immunology, Imaging, and Informatics for Precision ImmunoMedicine (iPRIME) in Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) announces a call for collaborative seed grant proposals to support innovative projects…

Shannon Moonah, MD, Awarded an R01 Grant from the NIH for Wound Healing Research

8/25/2022

Shannon Moonah, MD, ScM, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, was awarded an R01 grant from the NIH to study mucosal wound healing. The mucosal epithelial barrier becomes…

JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, Writes About Hormone Therapy in Menopause

8/25/2022

JoAnn V. Pinkerton, MD, a "UVA School of Medicine professor of obstetrics and gynecology, wrote an editorial for the journal Menopause entitled "Reassuring data regarding the use of hormone therapy…

BME Fellow Dan Abebayehu, PhD, Studies Tissue Regeneration with Support from NIH Mosaic Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)

8/25/2022

Dan Abebayehu, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Thomas H. Barker, PhD's lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), is studying fibrosis and how different types of fibroblasts could…

Cancer Training T32 Awarded, Marking the Fifth T32 with Greater than 44 Years of Continuous Funding

8/25/2022

The Cancer Training T32 was recently awarded $1,577, 285 by the National Cancer Institute in support of years 46-50 of the training program. This marks the fifth T32 in the…

Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Discovery on How Digestive Tract, Lungs and Liver Form Improves Understanding of Cancer

8/25/2022

A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications…

Statement on Representativeness in Clinical Trials

8/25/2022

I write to share the School of Medicine’s Statement on Representativeness in Clinical Trials that was so thoughtfully written by the Clinical Research Advisory Committee led by James P. Nataro,…