In Victory Over Polio, Hope for the Battle Against COVID-19
5/18/2020
UVA Health's Bill Petri, MD, PhD, is developing a vaccine for COVID-19. For much of the 20th century, summer was “polio season,” and people were accustomed to seeing swimming pools…
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…
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 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…
9/19/2019
Erin Weddle was recently awarded an NIH F31, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) which began on 9/1/19. Erin is a Microbiology degree…
9/11/2019
Abigail Wolpe was recently awarded an NIH F31, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) which began on 8/1/19. Abby is a Cell Biology…
9/11/2019
Jon Suzich was recently awarded an NIH F30, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for MD/PhD students from the National Eye Institute (NEI),beginning on 7/1/19. Jon is a Microbiology degree candidate in…
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…
