UVA-Born Technology Goes From Lab Bench to Bedside With Global Impact
10/21/2025
HemoSonics’ Quantra Hemostasis System Makes Trauma and Surgical Treatments Safer, Leads to Better Outcomes It’s easy to understand Shayn Peirce-Cottler’s sense of pride at the success of HemoSonics, a company transforming…
10/21/2025
The Jefferson Trust awarded John McNeil, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, a grant for $81,532 to study whether microplastics and forever chemicals are accumulating in human…
Research in Motion: Lian-Wang Guo, PhD
10/21/2025
When an artery is clogged, doctors can insert a balloon catheter to re-open it or use open graft to bypass a clogged artery to resume blood flow. But the problem…
10/14/2025
Richard Price, PhD, co-director of UVA Health’s Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center and professor of biomedical engineering, spoke with the BBC about using focused ultrasound to potentially treat cancer. Ultrasound…
UVA Sweeps the American Society of Echocardiography Research Investigator Awards
10/14/2025
Two members of UVA's Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), Matteo Morello, MD, and Bethany Gholson, won the 2025 Research investigator Awards at this year’s American Society of Echocardiography…
Walsh Lab Finds Solutions to Consequences of Y Chromosome Loss
10/14/2025
As human beings age, we accumulate mutations in our DNA. These mutations can be harmless, or they can contribute to age-related conditions including neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers.…
10/14/2025
A groundbreaking multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open explores whether ventilatory assistance before umbilical cord clamping improves outcomes for extremely preterm infants. The study, which enrolled 570 infants…
Alison Criss, PhD, Receives NIH R37 MERIT Award for Gonorrhea Research
10/14/2025
Congratulations to Alison Criss, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and vice chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, for her recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) R37…
