News Archive: 2025
To view Cancer Center news archived by month, click below:
- Sarah Ewald, PhD, Earns Five-Year $2.3 million NIH-R35 Award to Study Innate Inflammatory Control of Cachexia
- Center for Excellence in Education Kicks Off Third Annual Scholars Program
- New Bladder Cancer Gene Therapy a Key Step Forward in Reducing Recurrence
- Q&A: Who experiences caregiver stress, and how can it be managed?
- How Providers Can Support Patients With Genitourinary Cancers
- Jeff Smith, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study Aging and its Impact on Chronic Diseases
- UVA Among 70 Cancer Centers and Organizations Urging HPV Vaccination
- Supporting the Goals of the National Cancer Plan
- How a Scientific Partnership Illuminates Cancer Immunotherapy
- UVA Researchers Awarded $13 Million to Lead National Study to Battle Leukemia
- 7 Quick Questions With Radiation Oncologist Christopher Luminais
- Jomaa Lab Secures NIH and NSF Funding for Nearly $3 Million to Uncover Protein Sorting and Cellular Dormancy Mechanisms
- Hoos In STEM: Breaking Down Brain Cancer With Harald Sontheimer, PhD
- Missed Opportunities to Prevent Ovarian Cancer During Unrelated Surgeries
- Everything You Need to Know About Genital Warts, HPV, & Cancer
- UVA Harnesses AI to Improve Brain Cancer Care
- For Controlling Genes, This ORC is a Versatile Warrior
- From Guesswork to Guided Choice in Breast Cancer Care
- Bringing AI to Pediatric Cancer Care: PeCAN-PI Paves the Way
- Celebrating Our First Hoos Research Champions
- The Long Game: A Conversation about Surgical Oncology, Collaboration, and Perseverance in Research with Dr. Todd Bauer
- Congratulations to the 2025 Wagner Fellows
- 7 Quick Questions With Urologic Oncologist Allison May
- Elias Spiliotis, PhD, Awarded $2.4 Million NIH Grant to Study Septin Proteins in Cells
- ‘Mismatched’ Transplants Now Safe for Blood Cancer Patients
- UVA Cancer Center asks men to ‘stay in the game’
- Teenager wants to cure skin cancer with soap
- Brain Cancer Discoveries Earn Sontheimer Top Award
- UVA Health Cancer Care Gainesville Receives $25,000 Donation from Heritage Charity Classic, Inc.
- UVA Cancer Center looks to fund local projects fighting cancer
- Body Fat More Accurately Predicts Heart Disease, Death Risk Than BMI
- Andrew Dudley, PhD, Earns $2.7 Million NIH Grant to Alleviate Toxicities Associated With Immunotherapy
- UVA Cancer Center Seeks Ideas to Reduce Cancer’s Impact
- Scientists Discover Unknown Organelle Inside Our Cells
- Clinical Research Trial Led by Linda Duska, MD, MPH, Advances New Treatments for Cervical Cancer
- UVA Cancer Center Expands Prostate Cancer Awareness Initiative
- 3 Key Ways UVA Health Can Help Your Patients With Ovarian & Uterine Cancer
- UVA Engineering Celebrates 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awardees
- UVA Cancer Center Advisory Council Shares Roadmap for Reducing Cancer’s Impact
- Cool School: Buford Biomedical Investigators Connect Learning to Active Research
- ‘Keep Talking’: Q&A With Nurse Scientist Randy Jones on President Biden’s Prostate Cancer Journey (UVA School of Nursing News)
- Cancer Center Research Faculty Welcomes Ross Buerlein, MD
- Huan Bao, PhD, Awarded $2 Million NIH Grant to Uncover Principles of Membrane Disruption During Cell Death
- Prostate Cancer: How to Balance Early Detection & Quality of Life Concerns
- Sound waves and tiny bubbles could offer non-invasive brain lesion treatment
- New At-Home Test Offers Easier Cervical Cancer Screening
- Q&A: How Did President Biden’s Prostate Cancer Advance Without Detection?
- UVACCC Welcomes Lu Gan, PhD
- Heman Shakeri Part of Team Awarded UVA Cancer Center Grant
- UVACCC Research Faculty Welcome Dr. Thomas Shin
- Department of Genome Sciences Celebrates National DNA With Local Middle School Students
- Female Founders Drive Tech Company’s Relentless Rise
- ‘Research Saved My Life’
- UVA Honors Its Top Teachers
- Planning for Impact
- Creating Victories
- Tailored Treatments
- UVA Health Opens Expanded Cancer Infusion Center, Clinic at Pantops
- Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Joins Melanoma Research Foundation’s Breakthrough Consortium
- Carlisle School Students Learn About Research Performed at UVA School of Medicine
- Prostate Cancer Discovery Opens Doors to More Tailored Treatments
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in 100% Green Lab Certified
- Cancer Treatment is the Next Frontier for Revolutionary Focused Ultrasound Technology
- CRX Program Welcomes Samantha Ruff, MD
- BIMS Hosts Annual Graduate Biosciences Symposium
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine Hosts First Research Retreat
- Postdoctoral Researcher Amanda Lulu, PhD, Receives Kate Amato Foundation Grant for CAR-T Cell Pediatric Cancer Research
- Get to Know the GYN/ONC Team | Compassion, Collaboration, and Clinical Research
- Sound Wave Research for Breast Cancer Receives $5.5 Million
- UVERS ’25: Edge Computing on Everyday Devices Is Just One of This Year’s Winning Projects
- UVA Health first in VA to use new tool helping surgeons spot lung cancer
- Innovative Research Earns Two UVA Students Coveted Goldwater Scholarships
- A ‘Condensed’ Way to Target Cancer, Other Diseases
- CRX Program Welcomes Matthew McCord, MD
- Students in Jianjie Ma, PhD, Laboratory Receive Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards
- She Was a Rectal Cancer Patient, Now She’s a Happy Mom
- UVACCC Welcomes Allison May, MD
- New Genomics Tool Accelerates Biomedical Breakthroughs
- Out of the Archives: Why I Love Colon Cancer Awareness Month
- Sheybani Laboratory Receives $5.5 Million for Patient-Centered Focused Ultrasound Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Research
- Ling Qi, PhD, and Shengyi Iris Sun, PhD, Earn $3.2 Million to Research Protein Degradation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Winning Spark Innovation Competition Project Fosters Sense of Community, Improves Well Being
- A Healthier Future—One Clinical Trial at a Time: An Interview with Shayna L. Showalter, MD
- UVACCC Welcomes Tianpeng Zhang, PhD
- CRX Program Welcomes Krithika Shanmugasundaram, MD
- New Charlottesville-Based Mobile Mammography Unit Sees First Patients
- 7 Quick Questions With GI Cancer Specialist Muneeb Rehman
- 3 UVA Health Discoveries Up for 2024’s Biggest Advance
- What are the ‘nicotine hiccups’ and why do they happen?
- Biomedical Sciences Launches Student Interview and Recruitment Committee
- Multidisciplinary Care, Innovative Treatments for Blood Cancers
- Ilya Levental, PhD, and Collaborators Earn $3.3 Million to Research Mechanisms by Which Immune Cells Fight Infection or Cancer
- Discover Medicine Introduces Musculoskeletal System and UVA Biomedical Research to Local High Schoolers
- Kelly Shaffer, PhD, Named Chair-Elect of the Scientific Network on the Study of Female Sexual Health and Cancer
- Care in the Community
- 4 UVA Health Teams Earn National Patient Experience Awards
- Accolades: Publication Feature Three UVA Health Specialties in ‘Top 100’ Lists
- Ovarian Cancer Discovery Could Turn Failed Treatment Into Lifesaver
- School of Medicine Faculty Honored at University of Virginia Outstanding Research Awards
- UVA Experts Go Beyond BMI To Measure Your Health
- Thomas Shin, MD, PhD, Advances Surgical Care and Education Through Artificial Intelligence Research
- Postdoctoral Researchers: An Integral Part of Great Scientific Innovation
- A Sound Treatment
- New Bladder Cancer Gene Therapy a Key Step Forward in Reducing Recurrence
- The Days of Denying a Stem Cell Transplant Because We Can’t Find a Donor Are Over
- Golam Mohi, PhD, Awarded $2.4 Million to Study Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, a Group of Blood Cancers
- Cancer Center Research Faculty Welcomes Shengyi Iris Sun, PhD
- Q&A: Will We Have an At-Home HPV Test? + Answers to Other Cervical Cancer Screening Questions
- Cancer Center’s Community Outreach and Engagement Team Breaks Barriers to Early Cancer Detection
- UVA Researchers Fast-Track Cancer Care with Patient-Specific Tumor Models
- 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Kr., UVA Health System Awards Announced
- GEN Program Welcomes Kexin Xu, PhD
- VIPC Awards Technology Commercialization Grant to UVA Health for Promising First-in-Class Therapy to Treat Brain Cancer
- Jiang He, PhD, Awarded $3.4 Million to Develop Radiotheranostics to Treat Cancer
- Hong Zhu, PhD, Appointed to Serve as Statistician on National Cancer institute Review Board
- Radiochemistry Core Selected as UVA’s Research Core of the Year
- Hoos in STEM Podcast Features John Lukens’ Journey from T Cells to the Brain
- Department of Plastic Surgery Hosts National Plastic Surgery Oncologic Reconstruction Course
- U.S. Soldiers 10 Times More Likely to Use Addictive Nicotine Pouches, Study Finds
- A Beloved Professor’s Legacy
- UVA Cancer Center Honored Among Nation’s Best
- UVA Alcohol Research Spurs Federal Action
- CPH Program Welcomes Katharine Daniel, PhD