2/22/2024
Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, PhD Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and resident faculty of the Center for Public Health Genomics, was awarded a $4.4…
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…
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'…
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…
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.…
CPHG Platig Lab’s Yogi Raghav Selected as Microsoft GitHub’s Global Campus Expert
6/1/2023
PhD Student Yogindra Raghav Appointed to Microsoft GitHub’s Global Campus Experts Program Yogindra Raghav Congratulations to Yogindra Raghav, a first-year PhD student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (BMG) program within…
