UVA Cell Biology Welcomes Dr. Sameer Bajikar
3/29/2024
The Department of Cell Biology is excited to welcome Dr. Sameer Bajikar, Ph.D., as Assistant Professor of Cell Biology. Dr. Bajikar is an alumnus of UVA's Department of Biomedical Engineering,…
Gustavo Pacheco Awarded NIH Fellowship
8/21/2023
Gustavo Pacheco, a MSTP student in the DeSimone lab, has been awarded an NIH-NICHD F30 predoctoral fellowship to study integrin adhesion and…
Gael Genet Receives AHA Career Development Award
6/15/2023
We are excited to share that Gael Genet, a Research Assistant Professor in the Hirschi Lab, has been awarded the 2022 American Heart Association…
Nafiisha Genet Receives AHA Career Development Award
6/15/2023
Nafiisha Genet, newly appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Hirschi Lab, has been awarded a prestigious Career Development Award from the American Heart Association…
Nick Chavkin Receives AHA Career Development Award
6/15/2023
Nick Chavkin, a postdoctoral researcher in the CVRC working in the Hirschi and Walsh Labs, has been awarded…
Jonathon Sewell Awarded Presidential Fellowship in Collaborative Neuroscience
5/2/2023
Jonathon Sewell, a graduate student in the Winckler lab, has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship in Collaborative Neuroscience to study a potentially…
Ryan Mulligan Awarded NIH F30 Fellowship
4/16/2023
Ryan Mulligan, an MSTP (Grad3) student in the Winckler Lab, has been awarded an NIH F30 Fellowship studying lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) in the nervous system. LMP is characterized by…
Aleksandra Cwiek awarded AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
1/17/2023
Aleksandra Cwiek, the CDB graduate student in the Hirschi Lab, received an American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship studying retinoic acid regulation of placental vascularization. She will explore how a…
Shaylyn Clancy Awarded NIDCD Fellowship
5/20/2022
Our sense of hearing is critically dependent on the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), which connect the sound receptors in the organ of Corti (OC) to the cochlear nuclei of…
UVA Today highlights Thisse Lab
12/22/2021
In this UVA Today article, read about how UVA researchers Christine and Bernard Thisse first used fish embryos to tease out the developmental steps for creating more sophisticated mammal embryos…
