iTHRIV Scholars Program Celebrates Nine Years of Faculty Career Development
8/25/2025
The Integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) Scholars Program recently celebrated the start of its ninth year. The all-virtual mentored career development program supports competitively appointed faculty from…
8/25/2025
The University of Virginia has been awarded a new $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to tackle one of the most pressing…
Research in Motion: Alison Criss, PhD
8/25/2025
Our research uncovers how the foot soldiers of our immune system, called neutrophils, recognize and respond to microbes, and how pathogens, including the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, manages to subvert…
Scott Hollenbeck, MD, Featured on Good Morning America Discussing Treatments for ‘Ozempic Face’
8/20/2025
Scott Hollenbeck, MD, the Raymond F. Morgan Professor and chair of the UVA School of Medicine Department of Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial and Oral Health, was featured on Good Morning America…
8/20/2025
Ahmad Jomaa, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, and his lab were recently awarded a five-year, $2.22 million NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award…
8/20/2025
Jeffrey Sturek, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine, pharmacology, and biomedical engineering, was awarded a new five-year $4 million grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute…
Research in Motion: Manoj Patel, PhD
8/20/2025
We are using gene therapy techniques known as base editing [for epilepsy]; we are able to go in and correct the abnormal variant and make it into a healthy variant,…
UVA White Coat Ceremony Celebrates MD Class of 2029
8/20/2025
On August 15, the School of Medicine welcomed the Class of 2029 medical students at our annual White Coat Ceremony—an exciting day that commemorates the beginning of their medical education…
