CPHG’s Own Stephen S Rich, Director Emeritus, Receives the 2022 UVA Distinguished Researcher Award
2/1/2023
The University of Virginia honored faculty members across Grounds for their outstanding research and scholarship on Tuesday at the fourth annual Research Achievement Awards, held at The Pavilion at the Boar’s Head…
Mete Civelek, PhD and Collaborators Identify Genes That Play Key Roles in Coronary Artery Disease
2/1/2023
University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators have identified genes that play key roles in the development of coronary artery disease, the No. 1 cause of death worldwide. UVA’s findings essentially…
11/29/2022
UVA Health School of Medicine researchers have developed an important new tool to help scientists sort signal from noise as they probe the genetic causes of cancer and other diseases.…
CPHG’s Kristen Naegle, PhD and Colleagues Develop Shining ‘KSTAR’ to Guide Cancer Treatments
10/26/2022
Kristen Naegle, PhD UVA Cancer Center researchers have developed an algorithm that will improve cancer care by quickly and easily identifying patients who will benefit from powerful cancer drugs called kinase inhibitors.…
10/12/2022
Nathan Sheffield, PhD, an associate professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and in the School of Data Science, was recently awarded…
8/26/2022
A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications…
8/12/2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Recipient of the Raisz-Drezner JBMR® First Paper Award- Abdullah "Arby' Abood! Congratulations to Abdullah "Arby" Abood, first author of “Identification of Known and Novel Long Noncoding…
CPHG’s Josyf Mychaleckyj Collaborates on UVA Research that Might Explain Why Men Die Sooner
7/16/2022
The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead to deadly heart failure, new research from the University of…
Inside the The American Journal of Human Genetics: A Chat with CPHG’s Ani Manichaikul
5/6/2022
Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper. This month they checked in with Ani to discuss her paper…
4/5/2022
Congratulations to Sam Crowl in Kristen Naegle’s Lab. Sam was named to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate…