{"id":615,"date":"2017-10-06T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/fac-dev-blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:50:50","slug":"faculty-news-weekly-round-up-october-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/fac-dev-blog\/2017\/10\/06\/faculty-news-weekly-round-up-october-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty News Weekly Round-Up: October 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UVA School of Medicine Faculty News Weekly Round-Up<br \/>\nOctober 6<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As Immunotherapy Ramps Up, Chemist Wins $600,000 Early Career Grant<\/p>\n<p>Ken Hsu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology at UVA School of Medicine, has won a $600,000 career development award from the U.S. Department of Defense to pursue an innovative approach to using the body\u2019s immune system to kill melanoma cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith FDA approval of immunotherapy and clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy of this type of treatment, we are entering an exciting and highly promising era for the precise, targeted treatment of cancers and other life-threatening diseases,\u201d Hsu said. \u201cFortunately, UVA is extremely well-positioned to lead in this field through our basic research and clinical trial experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.virginia.edu\/content\/immunotherapy-ramps-chemist-wins-600000-early-career-grant\">https:\/\/www.news.virginia.edu\/content\/immunotherapy-ramps-chemist-wins-600000-early-career-grant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Researchers Examine Relationship Between Mismatch Repair Deficiency and PD-L1 Expression in Breast Carcinoma<\/p>\n<p>Several UVA School of Medicine faculty contributed to a paper recently published in American Journal of Surgical Pathology. They include the following:<br \/>\nAnne Mills, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology<br \/>\nChristopher Moskaluk, MD, Professor of Pathology<br \/>\nJaroslaw Dziegielewski, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology<br \/>\nTimothy Bullock, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology<br \/>\nPatrick Dillon, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28914717<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Researchers Publish on Clostridium Difficile Infection<\/p>\n<p>Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a serious threat for an aging population. Using an aged mouse model, researchers evaluated the effect of age and the roles of innate immunity and intestinal microbiota.<\/p>\n<p>Cirle Warren, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, UVA School of Medicine, was an author on the paper, which was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jid\/article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/infdis\/jix414\/4091001\/Innate-Immune-Response-and-Outcome-of-Clostridium<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 NBC 29 House Call: Dr. Carrie Rochman on Breast Cancer<\/p>\n<p>Rochman, MD, is Assistant Professor of Radiology at UVA School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Watch the interview: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc29.com\/clip\/13790420\/uva-house-call-dr-carrie-rochman-on-breast-cancer\">http:\/\/www.nbc29.com\/clip\/13790420\/uva-house-call-dr-carrie-rochman-on-breast-cancer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nDid we miss something? If you have UVA School of Medicine faculty news to share, please email christa@virginia.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UVA School of Medicine Faculty News Weekly Round-Up October 6 \u2022 As Immunotherapy Ramps Up, Chemist Wins $600,000 Early Career Grant Ken Hsu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology at UVA School of Medicine, has won a $600,000 career development award from the U.S. Department of Defense to pursue an innovative approach to using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news-weekly-round-up","category-news"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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