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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…

CPHG’s Chongzhi Zang, PhD and Team Develop Powerful Analytical Tool to Advance Genomics and Disease Research

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.…

CPHG’s Nathan Sheffield, PhD Awarded $1.5M NIH Grant to Improve Methods for Analyzing Genome Locations

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…

CPHG’s Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Discovery on How Digestive Tract, Lungs and Liver Form Improves Understanding of Cancer

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…

Farber Lab’s Arby Abood Wins American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)-Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR) 2022 Raisz-Drezner First paper award!

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…

Naegle Lab’s Sam Crowl named to the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)

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…