UVA Brain Retreat Hosts Nearly 200 Neuroscience Researchers On Grounds
5/6/2025
Nearly 200 neuroscience researchers including UVA faculty, undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff gathered last week at Newcomb Hall for the 2025 UVA Brain Retreat, organized by…
Seham Ebrahim, PhD, Earns $2 Million NIH-R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
5/6/2025
Seham Ebrahim, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, was awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institutes…
Research in Motion: Michelle Bland, PhD
5/6/2025
My lab studies how hormones like insulin control growth and metabolism. And on the flip side, we study how infection can derail the control of growth and metabolism by insulin…
4/29/2025
Irène Mathieu, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, was featured on With Good Reason (airing on 138 NPR stations nationally) discussing how poetry can help address…
4/29/2025
Kevin Pelphrey, PhD, a professor in the Department of Neurology and principal investigator of the NIH Autism Center for Excellence, was highlighted in USA Today and more than 50 newspapers…
4/29/2025
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, director of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics at the School of Medicine, has received the Society of Critical Care in Medicine (SSCM) Grenvik Award…
4/29/2025
A decades-long partnership with UVA School of Medicine faculty and institutions in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania now supports two NIH-Fogarty International Center research training grants. The D43 grant to…
UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Joins Melanoma Research Foundation’s Breakthrough Consortium
4/29/2025
UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center (UVACCC) was recently accepted as a member of the Melanoma Research Foundation Breakthrough Consortium (MRFBC), a group of 30 top institutions pursuing new and enhanced therapies…
