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Mete Civelek Recognized As Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow

5/26/2023

A new University of Virginia program announced this week has awarded 15 faculty members with fellowships to honor what Executive Vice President and Provost Ian Baucom called their “groundbreaking research”…

CPHG Researchers, Led by Clint Miller’s Lab, Discover Gene That Shapes Risk for Heart Attacks, Vascular Diseases

4/12/2023

Clint L. Miller, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a gene that plays a crucial role in determining our risk for heart attacks, deadly aneurysms, coronary…

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…