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Patrick Finan, PhD, and Philip Chow, PhD, Earn $4 Million to Study an Adaptive Intervention to Manage Low Back Pain

6/19/2025

Chronic low back pain affects millions of people worldwide and is often accompanied by insomnia, defined as chronic difficulty falling or staying asleep resulting in daytime impairments. Treating insomnia using…

Research in Motion: Chelsea Marie Braun, PhD

6/19/2025

My lab researches the parasite Cryptosporidium. And we're really interested in understanding across a variety of pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium, why some people [with] a particular infection become very sick and…

UVA Health University Medical Center Earns Environmental Excellence Award

6/11/2025

In recognition for innovation in advancing health care sustainability, UVA Health University Medical Center has received a 2025 Partner Recognition Award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to…

Research in Motion: Matthew Gurka, PhD

6/11/2025

As a biostatistician, I've been recently focusing on pragmatic clinical trials. These are real world clinical trials where we are randomizing, not patients, but providers or clinics to interventions to…

Christopher Kramer, MD, Named President of the American College of Cardiology, Testifies Before Congress

6/3/2025

Christopher M. Kramer, MD, recently assumed the role of president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), an almost 60,000-member global cardiovascular organization working to transform cardiovascular care and improve…

New Organelle Discovered: UVA and NIH Researchers Identify ‘Hemifusomes’ as a Key to Cellular Recycling

6/3/2025

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a previously unknown cellular…

Research in Motion: Larry Borish, MD

6/3/2025

I study the interaction of the common cold virus with asthma. Something like 80% of all hospital admissions from asthma exacerbations are caused by the common cold virus. And we're…

Mark Esser, PhD, Newly Appointed Head of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, Featured on NPR

5/28/2025

Mark T. Esser, PhD, the inaugural chief scientific officer and head of the upcoming Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, talked recently with NPR's Virginia Public Media about the…