News Archive: 2026
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- Multi-Institutional Study Uncovers Genetic Control Circuit That Shapes Key Immune Cells
- From Northern Virginia to Charlottesville — Patient-Driven Collaboration Among UVA Health Surgeons Expands Access to Advanced Breast Cancer Surgery
- Discovery Evolves Our Understanding of How Dormant Cells Awaken
- The benefits of a generational tobacco ban
- Public Health Sciences Day Celebrates Multidisciplinary Research and Education
- UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Joins International Consortium to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection and Survival
- UVA recognizes faculty, grad students for excellence in teaching, public service
- Q&A: Is nicotine really good for you?
- Community voices drive UVA study on cancer risk
- 7 Quick Questions With GI Cancer Surgeon Samantha Ruff, MD
- UVA’s Cancer-Data Science Alliance Sparks Discovery
- Ribosome Function Research Highlights Links to Human Disease
- Advancing Gynecologic Oncology Through Clinical Trials: A High-Accrual Model That Delivers Impact
- UVA scientists use AI to improve success rate for new drugs, reduce cost
- New AI Tech to Speed Drug Development
- Customized Care
- The Gift of Time
- Elizabeth Lyons, MD, Runs Charlottesville Ten Miler to Support Department of Pediatrics Cancer Research
- Jie Sun, PhD, Featured in More Than 100 Media Outlets Internationally for Research About Influenza and COVID Link to Lung Cancer
- ‘The world just stopped’: One woman’s response to a life-altering diagnosis
- UVA research leads to new lifeline for leukemia patients
- Tianpeng Zhang, PhD, Earns $2.2 Million NIH Grant to Study Genome Integrity Maintenance Mechanisms in Repetitive DNA Sequences
- Olivia Sears, MD, Receives a Focused Ultrasound Preclinical Award
- Severe COVID-19, Flu Facilitate Lung Cancer Months or Years Later
- UVA Health researchers join international partnership to develop new pediatric cancer treatments
- C-Further unveils first therapeutic programmes dedicated to paediatric oncology
- UVA earns prestigious ‘Carnegie Classification’ in part for helping Appalachian smokers kick the habit
- UVA Study Finds Preoperative Exercise Reduces Cancer Recurrence After Liver Surgery
- UVA Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research Receives $1.2 Million to Establish Human Immunophenotyping Initiative
- Antonio Abbate, MD, PhD, Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Bon Trinh, PhD, Inducted as Member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society
- Discover Medicine Program Introduces High School Students to Clinical Dermatology and Biomedical Dermatology Research
- 7 Quick Questions With Gyn Cancer Doctor Marilyn Huang, MD
- Rebecca Krukowski, PhD, and Colleagues Awarded $3.4 Million NIH Grant to Improve Weight Management Programs
- CPH Program Welcomes Vanessa Torrecillas, MD
- UVA Recognizes Faculty for Outstanding Research and Scholarship
- Kara Wiseman, PhD, MPH, Wins Society of Behavioral Medicine’s 2026 Leading the Narrative Award
- Hong Zhu, PhD, Provides Statistical and Data Science Leadership for Multi-Institution Pediatric Leukemia U54 SPORE Grant
- Q&A: What do young people need to know about colorectal cancer?
- Why Debbie Ryan’s other UVA legacy can’t be measured
- Huiwang Ai, PhD, Appointed Director of the Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology
- UVA researchers identify promising new target for deadliest brain cancer
- Why Boys Also Need the HPV Vaccine
- Faculty Elected to Serve in National Leadership Positions Advancing Patient Care
- UVACCC Welcomes Shivashankar Khanapur, PhD, M.Pharm
- Victoria’s Secret Grant Backs Cutting-Edge Ovarian Cancer Research
- UVA Undergraduates Mentored by School of Medicine Faculty Selected for Prestigious Statewide Research Showcase