Congratulations: 2022 Wagner Fellowship Awardees
8/26/2022
BIMS is proud to announce our 2022 Robert R. Wagner Fellowship awardees. These students, listed above, were selected by the Directors of Graduate Studies from a highly competitive pool based…
Congratulations: 2021 Wagner Fellowship Awardees
8/26/2022
Please join us in congratulating the 2021 Robert R. Wagner Fellowship awardees. In 1997, Bob and Mary Wagner established The Robert R. Wagner Fellowship Fund with the goal of providing…
2022 Jill E. Hungerford Award Winner: Mitch Granade
8/7/2022
Mitch Granade, a recent Pharmacology graduate from the Harris lab, has won the Jill E. Hungerford Award for 2022. This award is given annually to a doctoral student who exemplifies a…
2021 Jill E. Hungerford Award Winner: Shambhavi Singh
8/5/2022
Shambhavi Singh, a PhD graduate of the Janes lab, has won the Jill E. Hungerford Award for 2021. This award is given annually to a doctoral student who exemplifies a commitment,…
2022 Michael J. Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Award Winner: Tanyaporn (Oom) Pattarabanjird
8/1/2022
Oom Pattarabanjird, a graduate student in the McNamara lab, has won the Michael J. Peach Award for 2022. This annual award is made to a graduate student who embodies enthusiasm for…
2021 Michael J. Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Award Winner: Ashley Bolte
7/14/2022
Ashley Bolte, a graduate student in the Lukens lab, has won the Michael J. Peach Award for 2021. This annual award is made to a graduate student who embodies enthusiasm for…
10/11/2019
Claire Ruddiman was recently awarded an NIH F31, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) which began on 9/1/19. Claire is a Pharmacology degree candidate…
UVA Identifies Surprising Contributor to Multiple Sclerosis
10/10/2019
Cells that scientists have largely ignored when studying multiple sclerosis are actually key contributors to MS development, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows. The discovery suggests…
UVA Professor’s Promising Cancer Drug Attracts $25 Million in Funding
10/3/2019
UVA biomedical engineering professor Kimberly Kelly founded ZielBio to bring new cancer treatments to market. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications) In her previous post as an assistant professor at…
Pancreatic Cancer Discovery Reveals How the Aggressive Cancer Fuels its Growth
9/27/2019
A new discovery about pancreatic cancer sheds light on how the cancer fuels its growth and may help explain how promising cancer drugs work – and for whom they…
