7/28/2017
Olivia Sabik, a Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics graduate student working in the Farber Lab, has been named a 2017 Wagner Fellow. The Robert R. Wagner Fellowship was established by Bob and…
7/7/2017
Wei-Min Chen has been promoted to Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, without term, effective July 1, 2017. Dr. Chen's research focuses on the design and statistical analysis of human gene mapping data.…
Center welcomes Clint Miller to UVA
7/5/2017
The Center welcomes its newest resident faculty member Clint Miller, PhD, who joined UVA this summer as Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences. He was previously an instructor at Stanford University in…
Sale group publishes paper in Stroke
6/23/2017
Dr. Michèle Sale and her collaborators recently published a paper in the June 2017 issue of Stroke. The researchers' aim was to investigate the potential role of circulating von Willebrand factor (vWF)…
Graduate Student Olivia Sabik awarded travel grant
6/9/2017
Olivia Sabik of the Farber Lab received a travel grant to attend the European Calcified Tissue Society PhD training course. She will spend a week in Paris learning about bone…
Robertson selected for Biomedical Data Sciences predoctoral appointment
6/2/2017
Cassie Robertson, graduate student in the Rich Lab, was recently selected for a predoctoral appointment for the second year of the Biomedical Data Sciences Training Program. The purpose of the…
Congratulations to Joe Mychaleckyj and Ani Manichaikul!
4/7/2017
Two resident faculty of the Center were recently awarded research grants. Joe Mychaleckyj was awarded (with Palak Shah) a joint UVA-Inova seed grant entitled “Genomic loci linked to biomarkers of…
Civelek Lab research featured in local news reports
3/6/2017
An international genetics study by Dr. Mete Civelek and his collaborators was featured in UVA Today's March 3rd edition. The study focuses on the connection between genes in our fat…
Mychaleckyj Lab publishes paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution
3/3/2017
Dr. Joe Mychaleckyj and his collaborators recently published a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution in which the researchers detected Native American genomic regions of selection in admixed North-Eastern Brazilians. This paper is the…
Center Director Stephen Rich awarded NIH grant
3/3/2017
Dr. Stephen Rich was recently awarded an NIH grant for the study of functional significance of the SNPs identified as critical to the risk of type 1 diabetes (T1D). The…
