New Insights Into Seizures Advance Efforts to Develop Better Treatments
5/11/2023
May 2023- Congratulations to Dr. Ukpong B. Eyo, PhD, and Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD, for publishing their paper on the advancement of seizure treatments! Research from the labs of UVA’s Ukpong…
SOM Earns Top Honors in U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School Rankings
5/11/2023
May 2023- The University of Virginia School of Medicine has earned a top national ranking for its biomedical research in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools guide.…
5/4/2023
May 2023 – Congratulations to Dr. Alban Gaultier for winning the 2022 Robert J. Kadner Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching! This award was established in honor of Robert J. Kadner,…
5/4/2023
April 2023- Congratulations to Jaeda Coutinho-Budd for winning the Jordi Folch-Pi Award! The Jordi Folch-Pi Award is given to an outstanding young investigator who has demonstrated a high level of…
5/4/2023
April 2023- Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Ennerfelt for being named the Outstanding Graduate Student in Neuroscience this year, as well as winning the Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Award! Each year,…
Outstanding Graduate Student in Neuroscience
5/4/2023
April 2023- Dr. Michael Kovacs, from Tajie Harris’s laboratory, has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student. Mike will also represent the MIC Graduate Program as our nominee for…
5/4/2023
March 2023- The Annual Graduate Biosciences Society (GBS) Symposium was held on Friday, March 17, 2023 in McKim Hall. The day was filled with terrific presentations from the Outstanding Student…
Microglia Regulate Vascular Structure and Function
9/8/2021
September 2021 – Congratulations to Drs. Kanchan Bisht and Ukpong Eyo for publishing their research related to microglia, vasculature, and PANX1-P2RY12 in Nature Communications! See the paper at and…
11/11/2020
Congratulations to Kate Still and the Harris lab for publishing their recent findings! Click here to read the full article.
Concussion Discovery Reveals Dire Unknown Effect of Even Mild Brain Injuries
9/22/2020
Illustration by Alexandra Angelich, University Communications September 2020 - Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain’s ability to clean itself of toxins, and this may seed it…
