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…
Patricio Ray, MD, and Colleague Spearhead Research About HIV-Chronic Kidney Diseases
8/12/2025
People living with HIV carrying any combination of two APOL1 risk alleles (RA), genetic variants known as G1 and G2, are at high risk of developing HIV-chronic kidney diseases (HIV-CKD),…
Research in Motion: Bradley Gelfand, PhD
8/12/2025
I run a research lab whose primary interest is in understanding the mechanisms and potential new therapies for prevalent diseases of the retina, like age-related macular degeneration. —Bradley Gelfand, PhD,…
Research in Motion: Anna Cliffe, PhD
8/6/2025
My lab works on herpes simplex virus, which infects over five billion people worldwide and persists for life as a silent infection in the nervous system. And it can come…
