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…
Jennifer Payne, MD, Spoke With NPR About Use of Antidepressants by Women Who Are Pregnant
8/12/2025
Jennifer Payne, MD, a professor in the UVA Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and expert in reproductive psychiatry, talked with NPR about the use of antidepressants by women who…
James Browne, MD, Elected President of the Southern Orthopaedic Association
8/12/2025
James Browne, MD, the Alfred R. Shands Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, executive vice chair for clinical operations and division chief of adult reconstruction surgery, started his term as president of…
