UVA Center for Telehealth Awarded $5.1M Rural Emergency Healthcare Grant
12/13/2022
The UVA Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth was awarded $5.118 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to serve as the lead on a multi-stakeholder consortium that includes UVA…
Category: Research
iPRIME Awards Four $100,000 Faculty Seed Grants
12/13/2022
Four interdisciplinary teams of researchers have been awarded $100,000 seed grants by the University-funded iPRIME P2PE initiative. iPRIME supports projects focused on immunology, imaging, and informatics in precision immunomedicine for Cardiovascular Disease. Learn…
Category: Research
12/13/2022
Barry M. Gumbiner, PhD, a research professor in the Department of Cell Biology, was awarded an NIH R01 for $2.4 million to study mechanisms controlling endothelial junctions and vascular permeability.…
Category: Research
SOM Office for Research Accepting Applications for Gap Research Funding Program
12/13/2022
With support from the SOM Office for Research, the School of Medicine announces another round of its Gap Research Funding program, with a deadline of January 16, 2023. Gap funding…
Category: Call for Nominations
Spark Innovation Competition Tremendous Success
12/13/2022
UVA Health’s inaugural Spark Innovation Competition this fall was a tremendous success, with six ideas selected for implementation. The purpose of the competition was for faculty and staff to share…
Category: Clinical
12/13/2022
Medical students spend thousands of hours pouring over textbooks, models, and diagrams, which may teach them plenty about the human body. But a textbook has no loved ones. A model…
Category: Education
Jose Javier Provencio, MD Elected to the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine
12/13/2022
Jose Javier Provencio, MD, the Louise Nerancy Chair in Neurology and a neurointensivist in the Department of Neurology, has been elected to the Council of the Society of Critical Care…
Category: Honors & Awards
Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH Receives the 2022 Early Career Physician Award by the Virginia ACP
12/13/2022
Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine and hospitalist in the Department of Medicine, Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine, received the Early Career Physician (ECP)…
Category: Honors & Awards
Kathleen A. McManus, MD Selected as Chair for Committee on Women in Medicine and Science
12/13/2022
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development is pleased to announce the selection of Kathleen A. (Kate) McManus, MD as the next chair of the Committee on Women in…
Category: Faculty
12/13/2022
About the Award Established in 2013, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., University of Virginia Health System Award is presented annually to a student, faculty, or staff member of the…
Neuroscience Doctoral Student Kristine Zengeler Writes Article for The Conversation
12/13/2022
Kristine Zengeler, a PhD candidate in the Department of Neuroscience Lukens Lab, wrote an article for The Conversation on research about neurodegenerative diseases and the brain's ability to cleanse and…
Category: Research
12/13/2022
Ifrah Zawar, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, is lead author on a multicenter study about how dementia patients who suffer from seizures decline faster and die…
Category: Media Highlights
12/13/2022
Jie Sun, PhD, professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division and the Carter Immunology Center, discusses his work on mucosal immunity after COVID-19 natural infection or…
Category: Media Highlights
