Loren Erickson, PhD and Coleen McNamara, MD, Awarded $4 Million NIH R01 Grant to Study IgE Sensitivity to Alpha-gal and Cardiovascular Disease

9/1/2022

Loren Erickson, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology and Coleen McNamara, MD, a professor in the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, both also…

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…

Sean Moore, MD, and Jason Papin, PhD, Discover How Microbes in Our Guts Regulate the Body’s Biological Clock 

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…

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…