Research in Motion: Clint Miller, PhD
7/9/2025
Our group studies the genetics and genomics of cardiovascular diseases using both computational and experimental approaches. More recently, we’re creating this large integrated atlas of human atherosclerosis, using single cell…
7/9/2025
Andrew Dudley, PhD Andrew Dudley, PhD, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, has been awarded a $2.7 million NIH grant for a project titled “Targeting…
7/2/2025
Jie Sun, PhD Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine Jie Sun, PhD, in the UVA Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious…
Stephen Rich, PhD, Speaks to his Research on the Genetic Basis of Complex Human Disease
6/26/2025
"Our laboratory focuses on the genetic basis of complex human disease, and particularly type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease in which there’s some event that causes your own…
6/26/2025
Richard Price, PhD, (left) and John Lukens, PhD The National Institute on Aging has awarded Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, a new $3.7 million grant for research using…
Department of Genome Sciences Celebrates National DNA Day With Local Middle School Students
5/8/2025
National DNA Day, observed every year on April 25, commemorates two pivotal moments in scientific history: the discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953 and the completion of the…
BIMS Mentor Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD PhD, Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
5/1/2025
The School of Medicine is pleased to announce the election of Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and ongoing research…
UVA Unveils How HIV Begins to Invade Our Cells
11/12/2020
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a method to understand how HIV and other viruses first begin to infect our cells, and that could help us…
Meet Allie Donlan, a UVA Researcher Whose Work Has Changed the COVID-19 Fight
10/19/2020
Even as the coronavirus pandemic began to grip the world in late February and early March, University of Virginia Ph.D. student Allie Donlan did not necessarily picture herself working on…
Your Brain Parasite Isn’t Making You Sick. Here’s Why.
8/5/2020
More than 30 million Americans are infected with a brain parasite spread by cats and contaminated meat, but most will never show symptoms. A new discovery from the University of…
