CPHG Affiliate Faculty Member Gary Owens Receives Distinguished Researcher Award
1/4/2024
CPHG Affiliate Faculty Member, Gary K. Owens, PhD is a winner of the Distinguished Researcher Award. Dr Owens is the Robert M. Berne Professor of Cardiovascular Research, Molecular Physiology and…
8/15/2023
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE DISCOVERY OFFERS ANSWERS ABOUT NATION’S NO. 1 KILLER UVA researchers say they have found a biological process that contributes to the disease and may be a target…
Speaker Applications Are Open for The 4th Annual Emerging Scholars in Genome Sciences Symposium
4/1/2023
The 4th Annual Emerging Scholars in Genome Sciences Symposium University of Virginia September 21-22, 2023 Soliciting Applications The Center for Public Health Genomics (CPHG) in the University of Virginia (UVA)…
12/21/2022
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Graham Casey of the Center for Public Health Genomics and collaborators conducted a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of 100,204 CRC…
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.…
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…
Research by CPHG’s Casey Lab Reveals Racial Disparity in Colorectal Cancer
1/25/2021
The colons of African Americans and people of European descent age differently, new research reveals, helping explain racial disparities in colorectal cancer – the cancer that killed beloved “Black Panther”…
3 Civelek Lab Members Create The Genomics Society of UVA
11/24/2020
Exciting news from Civelek Lab! Rita Anane-Wae, Dillon Lue, and Zhiwen Xu put their efforts together and created The Genomics Society of UVA, hoping to promote undergraduate research. The primary…
7/28/2017
Olivia Sabik, a Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics graduate student working in the Farber Lab, has been named a 2017 Wagner Fellow. The Robert R. Wagner Fellowship was established by Bob and…
7/7/2017
Wei-Min Chen has been promoted to Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, without term, effective July 1, 2017. Dr. Chen's research focuses on the design and statistical analysis of human gene mapping data.…
