Mary Peace McRae, PharmD, PhD, Appointed as School of Medicine’s Next Assistant Dean for Research
9/1/2022
Mary Peace McRae, PharmD, PhD, has been selected as the School of Medicine’s new Assistant Dean of Research. In that role, she will direct the operations of the Office for…
8/31/2022
Gut Check: How Tiny Organisms Could Improve Everything From Sleep to Chemotherapy A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine about how the microbes in our guts regulate…
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…
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 Grant Marks the Fifth T32 with Greater than 44 Years of Continuous Funding
8/25/2022
The NIH National Cancer Institute awarded $1,577, 285 to faculty in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology for a Cancer Training T32 grant in support of years 46-50…