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…
CPHG’s Stephen Rich and Aakrosh Ratan Help Develop New Tool Called “Giraffe”
3/9/2022
Scientists, including two University of Virginia researchers, have developed a powerful, inclusive new tool for genomic research that boosts efforts to develop more precise treatments for many diseases by leveraging…
Mete Civelek and Qianyi Yang Lead Lab in New Discovery on How Women’s Bodies Store Fat
3/4/2022
School of Medicine researchers at the University of Virginia have identified a potential way to battle the health effects of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in women after discovering an…
Chongzhi Zang and Lab Members Publish Findings in Nature Immunology
2/24/2022
With scientists counting on our immune systems’ “memory” to provide long-term protection against severe COVID-19, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have shed light on how…
CPHG’s Clint Miller, PhD Wins Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
2/7/2022
Join us in congratulating Dr. Clint Miller in receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching from UVA's School of Medicine. The University of Virginia School of Medicine Awards for…
11/11/2021
Arby Abood, a Ph.D. Candidate in Charles Farber's Lab at CPHG helped organize and host an Arabic session of the Genetics Society of America's Multilingual Seminar Series. The "series offers…
8/26/2021
Hispanic people with a high percentage of American Indigenous ancestry are at increased risk of a nutritional deficiency that could affect their heart health and contribute to harmful inflammation, new…