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Category: Research Highlights

Research in Motion: Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD

8/1/2025

"My team at UVA focuses on proteins called ion channels, and we study how these ion channels in the vascular wall work together to maintain vascular health." - Swapnil Sonkusare,…

Scientists ID Rogue Antibodies in Patients After COVID

8/1/2025

Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD Errant antibodies that regulate chemical reactions the way enzymes do could explain low blood pressure and other persistent symptoms that plague patients after COVID, new…

Medical Scientist Training Program T32 Grant Marks More Than 50 Years of Funding

7/17/2025

The UVA Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) educates a highly selective group of students who graduate with both MD and PhD degrees. The program has secured a prestigious five-year T32…

Elias Spiliotis, PhD, Awarded $2.4 Million NIH Grant to Study Septin Proteins in Cells

7/17/2025

  Elias Spiliotis, PhD Elias Spiliotis, PhD, a professor in the Department of Cell Biology, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical…

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…

Andrew Dudley, PhD, Earns $2.7 Million NIH Grant to Alleviate Toxicities Associated With Immunotherapy

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…

Jie Sun, PhD, Secures Grants Totaling $6.2 Million to Study Aging and Chronic Diseases After Viral Injury

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…

Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer’s Research Using Focused Ultrasound

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…