Search



Category: People

Y. Michael Shim, MD, and CPHG’s Ani Manichaikul, PhD, Awarded $3 Million Grant

6/15/2023

Y. Michael Shim, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Ani Manichaikul, PhD, an associate professor in the Center for Public Health…

CPHG Platig Lab’s Yogi Raghav Selected as Microsoft GitHub’s Global Campus Expert

6/1/2023

PhD Student Yogindra Raghav Appointed to Microsoft GitHub’s Global Campus Experts Program Yogindra Raghav Congratulations to Yogindra Raghav, a first-year PhD student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (BMG) program within…

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…