For Controlling Our Genes, This ORC Is a Versatile Warrior

8/7/2025

Chongzhi Zang, PhD School of Medicine scientists have made surprising discoveries about an important controller of gene activity that could advance efforts to better treat cancer and genetic diseases. Genes,…

A ‘Condensed’ Way to Target Cancer, Other Diseases

4/10/2025

Chongzhi Zang, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a new tool that could help reveal genetic causes of cancer, predict patient outcomes and improve care for…

CPHG’s Chongzhi Zang Named 2024 Pinn Scholar

7/11/2024

Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Public Health Genomics was named a 2024 Pinn Scholar. The Pinn Scholars program is named in honor of the extraordinary career of Dr.…

Miller Lab’s Jose Verdezoto Mosquera and UVA Researchers Create New ‘Atherosclerosis Atlas’ That Sheds Light on Causes of Heart Attacks, Strokes

12/12/2023

Clint L. Miller, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an “atlas of atherosclerosis” that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming…

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 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…