9/19/2023
Kandice Levental, PhD, and Ilya Levental, PhD, were awarded the prestigious 2024 AVANTI Award in Lipids from the Biophysical Society. This remarkable accomplishment reflects their dedication, expertise, and contributions to…
9/19/2023
Stewart Babbott, MD, and Mohan M. Nadkarni, MD, in the Department of Medicine, have been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP). Approximately 50 members a year out…
9/19/2023
Stellah Mpagama, MD, PhD, a visiting faculty scholar from Kibong'oto Infectious Diseases Hospital, Tanzania, and Scott Heysell, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine's Division of Infectious…
Subtle Shift in Terminology Could Improve Undergraduate Medical Education
9/19/2023
University of Virginia School of Medicine educators are seeking to improve patient care, prevent medical mistakes and, ultimately, produce better doctors by enhancing how students are taught clinical reasoning, the…
BIMS Spotlight: PhD Candidate Johnson Ung Receives F99/K00 Award from the National Cancer Institute
9/19/2023
Biomedical sciences (BIMS) graduate student Johnson Ung was awarded a F99/K00 grant through the National Cancer Institute branch of the National Institutes of Health this past month. This award is…
9/19/2023
Julius Zhu, PhD, a professor of pharmacology, was awarded a $2 million grant for a project titled “Architectonic Analysis of Complex Cortical Circuits in Healthy and Diseased Brain.” Professor Zhu’s…
Chemotherapy Drug Could Prevent Deadly Heart Failure
9/19/2023
A chemotherapy drug used to fight bone-marrow cancer also has the potential to treat and prevent potentially deadly heart failure, a powerful new drug-screening tool developed at UVA Health suggests. The…
Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Deeper Dive into a Growing Concern
9/19/2023
A team of neonatal researchers at UVA Children’s, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, co-led by Brynne Sullivan, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics,…
