Mete Civelek, PhD and Coleen McNamara, MD, Receive $15 Million from LeDucq Foundation for Atherosclerosis Research

9/15/2022

The Leducq Foundation has awarded $15 million to researchers at UVA School of Medicine and their collaborators to advance our understanding of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, and find…

Jennifer Payne, MD, Defines Premenstrual Mood Swings and Anxiety as Global Health Issue

9/8/2022

Premenstrual mood swings and anxiety are so common – experienced by more than 64% of women – that they represent a “key public health issue globally,” according to a new…

Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Discovery on How Digestive Tract, Lungs and Liver Form Improves Understanding of Cancer

8/25/2022

A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications…

This UVA Pediatrician Can Predict Your Stroke Risk

8/17/2020

Doctors can predict patients’ risk for ischemic stroke based on the severity of their metabolic syndrome, a conglomeration of conditions that includes high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels and excess…