{"id":4937,"date":"2025-07-09T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:55:37","slug":"congratulations-to-bims-faculty-on-2025-pinn-scholars-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/congratulations-to-bims-faculty-on-2025-pinn-scholars-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to BIMS faculty on 2025 Pinn Scholars Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48377\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48377\" src=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Cliffe_Erdbruegger_Sonkusare-SQUARE-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(From left) Anna Cliffe,\u00a0PhD, Uta Erdbruegger, MD,\u00a0 Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48377\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-48377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Anna Cliffe, PhD, Uta Erdbruegger, MD, and Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please join the School of Medicine in congratulating the following 2025 Class of Pinn Scholars, selected for a three-year term effective July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Cliffe,\u00a0PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology<\/li>\n<li>Uta Erdbruegger, MD,\u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD,\u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Pinn Scholars program is named in honor of the extraordinary career of Vivian Pinn, MD, one of the first African American graduates of the UVA School of Medicine. Pinn Scholars are mid-career faculty chosen for their scientific expertise and research productivity, and contributions to the School of Medicine and to the greater research community, including mentoring and service. This prestigious award provides $120,000 for each scholar\u2019s research program at the beginning of the three-year term. They are expected to develop a new project or direction in their research and share their results at an annual symposium.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the recipients of this esteemed honor!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally posted in UVA Medicine in Motion on July 1, 2025 by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/author\/daf4avirginia-edu\/\">daf4a@virginia.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From left) Anna Cliffe, PhD, Uta Erdbruegger, MD, and Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD Please join the School of Medicine in congratulating the following 2025 Class of Pinn Scholars, selected for a three-year term effective July 1, 2025. Anna Cliffe,\u00a0PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Uta Erdbruegger, MD,\u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Swapnil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2214,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations to BIMS faculty on 2025 Pinn Scholars Appointment - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/congratulations-to-bims-faculty-on-2025-pinn-scholars-appointment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congratulations to BIMS faculty on 2025 Pinn Scholars Appointment - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(From left) Anna Cliffe, PhD, Uta Erdbruegger, MD, and Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD Please join the School of Medicine in congratulating the following 2025 Class of Pinn Scholars, selected for a three-year term effective July 1, 2025. 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