CHRC Seminar Series
The Child Health Research Center’s mission is to support scientists engaged in basic and clinical research for the purpose of discovering innovative therapies for childhood disease and improving the health of children.
The CHRC Seminar Series was created to provide scientists an interactive forum for presenting their scientific research and engaging with CHRC faculty and other colleagues at UVA Health and across Grounds. The seminars occur most Fridays 12:00 – 1:00 pm during the academic year. Currently, the seminars are held in-person with a virtual option via Zoom. Recordings of some Zoom seminars are available when the speaker has approved.
Upcoming & most recent seminars
1/24/2025: UVA Children’s Faculty Candidate : Chintan K. Gandhi, MD, MBBS, FAAP
UVA Children's Faculty Candidate Seminar Chintan K. Gandhi, MD, MBBS, FAAP Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatal – Perinatal Medicine Penn State College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Milton…Previous Seminars
Oscar G. Gomez-Duarte, MD, PhD
“Enteric Infections: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Prevention”
August 23, 2022
Ben Spector, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
“Genetic and epigenetic insights into kidney dysfunction”
July 7, 2022
Jeffrey R. Donowitz, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
“Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth in Impoverished Children From Low-Income Countries”
July 19, 2022
Russell Stafford Whelan, MD, MS, PhD, University of Washington
“Understanding and treating HUS: Use of engineered kidney microvessels to investigate Shiga toxin mediated endothelial injury & therapeutic approaches”
July 16, 2021
Zhen Yan, MS, PhD, University of Virginia
“Exercise-induced mitochondrial remodeling: Cash for Clunkers”
September 10, 2021
Brynne Sullivan, MD, University of Virginia
“Steps for predictive monitoring in the NICU: Physiology, Data, Math, and Implementation”
September 24, 2021
Michael C. Spaeder, MD, MS, University of Virginia
“Monitoring of regional oxygen saturation by near infrared spectroscopy and outcomes in neonates following cardiac surgery”
October 22, 2021
Christopher Robert Sudfeld, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health
“The Role of Nutrition During the First 1,000 Days of Life in Child Development and Human Capital in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”
November 12, 2021
Hui Zong, PhD, University of Virginia
“Deconstruct an intricate multi-cell network in medulloblastoma with a cutting-edge mouse model”
January 14, 2022
Karen Kemper Hirschi, PhD, University of Virginia
“Regulation of Endothelial Cell Specialization”
March 18, 2022
Jie Sun, PhD, University of Virginia
“Immunity and Immunopathogy after acute COVID-19”
March 25, 2022
Francine Coelho Marques, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne
“Dietary fibre, the gut microbiota and blood pressure”
April 1, 2022
Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD, University of Virginia
“Expressing Antigens on the Surface of Genome Reduced Bacteria: A New Platform for the Rapid Production of Globally Useful Vaccines”
September, 11, 2020
Daniel W. Lee, MD, University of Virginia
“CARs for Brain and Hematologic Malignancies: Now with Added Safety Features!”
September 18, 2020
Mark D. DeBoer, MD, University of Virginia
“Assessing Relationships between Insulin Resistance and Glycemic Control in A.P. APPLE: Artificial Pancreas Adolescent Physiology & Psychology Longitudinal Evaluation”
October 2, 2020
Alexander Kula, MD, MHS, University of Washington
“A Delicate Balance: The Kidney and Heart, in Health and Disease”
October 9, 2020
Imre Noth, MD, University of Virginia
“The Genetics and Pharmacogenomics of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: The role of TOLLIP”
October 16, 2020
Vladmir T. Todorov, MD, PhD, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (Dresden)
“A Complex Journey from Renin Cells to Endothelium”
October 30, 2020
John Bushweller, PhD, University of Virginia
“Decoding and Drugging Transcription Factor Fusion Drivers in Leukemia”
November 13, 2020
Rebecca V. Levy, BM, BCh, MSc, Montefiore Medical Center
“New Frontiers in the Genetics of Chronic Kidney Disease.”
November 20, 2020
Brant E. Isakson, PhD, University of Virginia
“Endothelial Cell Alpha Hemoglobin in Hypoxia”
December 4, 2020
Christine Bakhoum, MD, University of California, San Diego
“A Constellation of a Problem: Dipper or Non-dipper”
December 11, 2020
Hannah Kim, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital
“Puberty in Chronic Kidney Disease”
January 15, 2021
Stephen S. Rich, PhD, FAHA, University of Virginia
“From Bench to Bedside to Community in Type 1 Diabetes”
February 5, 2021
Masako Suzuki, DVM, PhD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Long-term Memory of Adverse Prenatal Micronutrient Environment on Offspring”
February 12, 2021
Jennifer R. Charlton, MD, MSc, University of Virginia
“Nephron Number: The Importance of Development, Determinants and Diagnostics”
February 26, 2021
Coleen A. McNamara, MD, University of Virginia
“B Lymphocyte-Mediated Protection from Obesity-Induced Inflammation”
March 12, 2021
Christine I. Thisse, PhD, University of Virginia
“Building a Mammalian Embryo in vitro from Pluripotent Stem Cells”
April 2, 2021
Chongzhi Zang, PhD, University of Virginia
“Data Science Approaches for Functional Epigenetics and Transcriptional Regulation”
April 23, 2021
Jamie Zoellner, PhD, RD, University of Virginia
“Behavioral interventions to address childhood obesity disparities: Lessons learned from two hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials in medically underserved regions across Virginia”
May 7, 2021
Agnieszka Swiatecka-Urban, MD, University of Virginia
“Role of MicroRNAs and RISC in TGF-β1 mediated inhibition of CFTR gene: relevance to human disease”
May 21, 2021
Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, Georgetown University
“From Idea on a Napkin to Clinical Trial: Creating a Drug for a Rare Cancer”
Friday, September 27, 2019
Christopher Wilcox, MD, PhD, FRCP, FACP, Georgetown University
“Resilience of cerebral arterioles to vasoconstriction protects the brain from vascular dementia and stroke”
Friday, October 11, 2019
Rachel Moon, MD, University of Virginia
“The importance of social networks, social norms, and attitudes in infant care practice decisions”
Friday, October 25, 2019
Christian Hugo, Prof. Dr. Med, Dresden University, Germany
“The juxtaglomerular apparatus: A renin lineage precursor cell niche for glomerular regeneration”
Friday, November 1, 2019
Ellen Grant, MD, Harvard University
“Novel Approaches to Fetal and Neonatal Monitoring”
Friday, November 8, 2019
William Petri, MD, PhD, University of Virginia
“Enteric infection and inflammation and impact on infant neurodevelopment in Bangladesh”
Friday, December 20, 2019
Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman, MD, PhD, University of Virginia
“Genomic and Epigenomic events in high risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia”
Friday, January 24, 2020
W. Gerald Teague, MD, University of Virginia
“Spatial Inhomogeneity of Ventilation as Resolved by Hyperpolarized Noble Gas MR in Childhood Asthma: Necessary and Sufficient”
Friday, February 14, 2020
Todd Stukenberg, PhD, University of Virginia
“The misregulation of a non-membranous organelle on mitotic chromosomes generates aneuploidy in breast cancers”
Friday, February 21, 2020
Brian A. Nosek, PhD, University of Virginia
“Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right”
Friday, March 6, 2020
Seminar Recordings
To access recordings
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