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…
Ani Manichaikul is a 2022 Pinn Scholar!
3/31/2022
CPHG congratulates Dr. Ani Manichaikul who has been named to the 2022 class of UVA Pinn Scholars! The Pinn Scholars Award is named in honor of the extraordinary career of…
Civelek Lab’s Zhiwen Xu Selected as 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholar
3/30/2022
Congratulations to Zhiwen Xu in Mete Civelek’s Lab. Zhiwen was selected as a 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholar. The scholarship program, which honors Senator Barry Goldwater, was designed to foster and…
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…