JoAnn Pinkerton, MD Featured in The New York Times Discussing Hormone Therapy for Women in Menopause
7/29/2025
JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was featured in The New York Times, MedPage Today, Healio and Yahoo discussing hormone therapy for women experiencing…
UVA Health Pet Therapy Dogs Bring Joyful Respite to BIMS Students This Summer
7/29/2025
While most students leave Grounds for the summer, the School of Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BIMS) students remain hard at work in their labs, conducting research and experiments. To…
7/29/2025
Joshua Li, MD, PhD, a professor of orthopaedic surgery in the Division of Spine Surgery, and Li Jin, PhD, a research professor of orthopaedic surgery, were awarded a five-year, $2.8…
Research in Motion: Jung-Bum Shin, PhD
7/29/2025
We are working on hearing and deafness. We are especially interested in a cell type called the sensory hair cells that converts mechanical energy arising from sound vibrations into electrical…
7/22/2025
Jay W. Fox, PhD, was interviewed by CBS Saturday Morning about his mentorship of a high school student developing a potential cure for skin cancer. Dr. Fox is director of…
Healthy Streets, Healthy People Fair: A Day of Unity and Hope
7/22/2025
This summer marked the largest turnout yet for Charlottesville’s annual Healthy Streets, Healthy People health fair—and it couldn’t have come at a more meaningful time. Against the backdrop of recent…
Congratulations to the 2025 Wagner Fellows
7/22/2025
Thanks to the tremendous generosity of Robert R. Wagner, MD, and his wife Mary, the Wagner Fellowship fund was able to award fellowships to nine Biomedical Science Graduate (BIMS) students…
Research in Motion: Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD
7/22/2025
My team at UVA focuses on proteins called ion channels. And we study how these ion channels in the vascular wall work together to maintain vascular health —Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD,…
