Spinal Cord Injuries: UVA Scientists Probe Individual Cells To Find Better Treatments
4/30/2020
Two top scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are seeking answers to questions about spinal cord injuries that have long frustrated the development of effective treatments. The scientists,…
Brain Discovery Suggests Source of Lifelong Behavioral Issues
4/20/2020
"When the damage isn’t recognized, the cells that have DNA damage live on in the CNS [central nervous system] and can be seen by accumulation of DNA damage in the…
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…
The Meat Allergy: UVA IDs Biological Changes Triggered by Tick Bites
9/3/2019
The findings by UVA’s Loren Erickson, PhD, and his team offer important insights into why otherwise healthy people can enjoy meat all their lives until a hot slab of ground…
UVA-Led Program Seeks to Broaden the Pool of STEM Researchers
9/3/2019
For students in the VA-NC Alliance for Minority Participation, a summer research program at the University of Virginia showed them career paths in STEM fields they hadn’t considered before and…
Here’s How E. Coli Knows How to Make You Really Sick
9/3/2019
A pair of School of Medicine scientists have revealed how E. coli seeks out the most oxygen-free crevices of your colon to cause the worst infection possible. The discovery could…
UVA Discovers Incredible ‘HULLK’ That Controls Growth, Aggressiveness of Prostate Cancer
9/3/2019
Cancer researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a key to controlling the growth and progression of prostate cancer, the second most common cancer in men. The researchers…
The Dudley Lab Looks at How Cancer Hijacks Wound Healing
7/12/2019
This study suggests that tumors create their own blood supply to grow and spread. Researchers identified the processes within the cells that line the blood vessels that tumors use to…
