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Xiaowei Hu Awarded TOPMed Fellowship for 2024

2/13/2024

Xiaowei Hu, PhD, a Research Scientist in Ani Manichaikul's lab at the Center for Public Health Genomics, was awarded a TOPMed Fellowship for 2024. Dr Hu's project is entitled, “Pathway-enriched…

CPHG’s Clint Miller Receives Junior Faculty Award

1/18/2024

CPHG Associate Professor Clint Miller was awarded the 2023 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Junior Faculty Award by the School of Medicine's Dean Melina R. Kibbe, MD in a…

CPHG Affiliate Faculty Member Gary Owens Receives Distinguished Researcher Award

1/4/2024

CPHG Affiliate Faculty Member, Gary K. Owens, PhD is a winner of the Distinguished Researcher Award. Dr Owens is the Robert M. Berne Professor of Cardiovascular Research, Molecular Physiology and…

Miller Lab’s Jose Verdezoto Mosquera and UVA Researchers Create New ‘Atherosclerosis Atlas’ That Sheds Light on Causes of Heart Attacks, Strokes

12/12/2023

Clint L. Miller, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an “atlas of atherosclerosis” that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming…

Zhaoxia Ma Wins Best Speaker Award at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference

12/6/2023

Zhaoxia Ma, a PhD candidate in Chongzhi Zang's lab (BIMS program) won a Best Speaker Award at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference (CVCRC) held at the University of…

Ani Manichaikul & UVA Researchers’ Omega-3 Findings Move Us Closer to ‘Precision Nutrition’

10/10/2023

Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids are found in foods such as nuts and avocados. New UVA research sheds light on how African-American and Hispanic American people's genes influence their bodies'…

Visiting Professor Sander W. van der Laan & CPHG’s Clint Miller Identify Genes that Contribute to Coronary Artery Disease

10/4/2023

A UVA researcher and a team of international collaborators identified nearly a dozen genes that may contribute to life-threatening coronary artery disease. Existing medications and diet supplements could soon be…

Noah Perry & Mete Civelek Discover Critical Biological Processes that Contribute to Coronary Artery Disease

8/15/2023

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE DISCOVERY OFFERS ANSWERS ABOUT NATION’S NO. 1 KILLER UVA researchers say they have found a biological process that contributes to the disease and may be a target…

Y. Michael Shim, MD, and CPHG’s Ani Manichaikul, PhD, Awarded $3 Million Grant

6/15/2023

Y. Michael Shim, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Ani Manichaikul, PhD, an associate professor in the Center for Public Health…

Keith Keene Leads New Center for Health Equity and Precision Public Health (CHEPPH)

6/14/2023

The new CHEPPH is led by Keith Keene, PhD, a geneticist and former postdoc at UVA’s Center for Public Health Genomics who has returned to UVA from East Carolina University.…