SASCO Symposium Showcases Cancer Research Targeting Sub-Cellular Systems
10/7/2025
UVA’s Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) hosted this summer its second annual symposium, showcasing the latest cancer systems biology research focused on sub-cellular components and their…
UVA Researchers Earn $2.6 Million to Develop Low-Field MRI Lung Imaging
10/7/2025
Researchers at the University of Virginia’s Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging are the recent recipients of a four-year NIH grant totaling approximately $2.6 million, which will support the development…
10/7/2025
One of the most common hospital-acquired infections in the U.S. is C. difficile infection (CDI), caused by a highly contagious bacterium that leads to diarrhea and colitis. It is estimated…
Research in Motion: Ani Manichaikul, PhD
10/7/2025
My group performs computational research using large scale human data sets to identify genetic and molecular factors contributing to risk of chronic respiratory diseases. —Ani Manichaikul, PhD, Associate Professor of Genome…
UVA Co-Hosts International Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Symposium and Progress Meeting
10/1/2025
UVA School of Medicine researchers who are leading the pursuit of new therapies for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) recently gathered on Grounds with colleagues from U.S. and European centers to…
10/1/2025
Lulu Jiang, PhD, from the UVA Department of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Yimin Zou, PhD, from UC San Diego, was awarded more than $200,000 in funding from CureAlz to investigate…
10/1/2025
Doug Bayliss, PhD, the Joseph & Frances Larner Professor, and his research group in the Department of Pharmacology, were awarded a new four-year $2.8 million grant from the National Heart…
Research in Motion: Mark Okusa, MD
10/1/2025
I specialize in kidney diseases and in particular, acute kidney injury. My research focuses on how to [better] understand mechanisms of this disorder and how to devise therapeutic options to…
