Cancer Center provides two new grants, including Trainee Fellowship to Zefan

6/27/2024

The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center has generously awarded two grants to our lab, igniting excitement and fueling our research endeavors. Dr. Zefan Li, our lab's Research Scientist, has been selected…

Community Engagement: Inspiring Local Youth in Scientific Research

6/27/2024

The Starr Hill Pathways Program (SHP) aims to address educational inequities in the Charlottesville-Albemarle region by providing social, technical, and research infrastructure. Beginning in 7th grade, SHP offers a comprehensive…

Paper on bioluminescent potassium sensor is published in JACS

5/24/2024

The paper by Shengyu, Ying, and several other co-authors on an engineered bioluminescent potassium sensor has been published in the ACS flagship journal JACS. This paper demonstrates an innovative concept…

Ai named UVA School of Medicine Pinn Scholar & promoted to full professor

6/1/2023

Huiwang Ai has been selected as a Pinn Scholar for 2023-2026. The Pinn Scholars program is named in honor of Dr. Vivian Pinn who was a graduate of the UVA…

Paper on amber-emitting luciferase and immunobioluminescence imaging published in JACS

8/1/2022

The paper by Ying, Yiyu, and several other co-authors on an engineered amber-emitting luciferase and in vivo immunobioluminescence imaging is now published in the ACS flagship journal, Journal of the American Chemical…

Paper on bioluminescent calcium imaging published in Nature Communications

7/10/2022

The paper by Xiaodong, Yiyu, and several other co-authors on luciferase prosubstrates and red bioluminescent calcium indicators for imaging brain activity is now published in Nature Communications ().