DOM at Medical Education Week Poster Session

3/8/2016

The Department of Medicine was well-represented at the poster session on Thursday, March 3rd, that culminated the School of Medicine's celebration of Medical Education Week. The posters were displayed in the…

Michael Brown & Team Find Link Between Immune Cells, Weight Control, Disease Resistance

2/10/2016

A research team led by UVA Nephrology's Michael Brown, PhD, has shown how our DNA determines our ability to fight off viruses, revealing that many genes work together to control immune…

Pediatric Nephrology Fellow Erika Rhone Receives ASPN Award

2/3/2016

Congratulation to Erika Rhone, MD, Pediatric Nephrology Fellow and postdoctoral fellow on the UVA Nephrology T32 Training Grant, who was awarded a 2016 Trainee Research Award in Basic Science from the…

ID’s Mami Taniuchi Leads Field Research in Bangladesh on Polio Vaccine

1/19/2016

Mami Taniuchi, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, has done groundbreaking work with ID's Eric Houpt, Bill Petri and others on a…

Petri Lab’s Discovery Offers New Way to Boost Nutrition of Infants in Low-Income Countries

1/17/2016

UVA Today news story by Josh Barney December 15, 2015  If every nutritional measure known to be helpful were applied to every child in the world, global malnutrition would be…

Artificial Pancreas Device Undergoes Clinical Trials, Supported By $12.7 Mill. NIH Grant

1/13/2016

Stacey Anderson, MD, and Boris Kovatchev, PhD, co-directors of the Center for Diabetes Technology in the Division of Endocrinology, have been awarded a $12.7 million grant from the NIH's National Institute of…

Nephrology’s Bert Kinsey Receives His First NIH R01 Award

1/13/2016

Bert Kinsey, PharmD, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Nephrology, learned in December that he was awarded his first R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).…