11/11/2021
Arby Abood, a Ph.D. Candidate in Charles Farber's Lab at CPHG helped organize and host an Arabic session of the Genetics Society of America's Multilingual Seminar Series. The "series offers…
8/26/2021
Hispanic people with a high percentage of American Indigenous ancestry are at increased risk of a nutritional deficiency that could affect their heart health and contribute to harmful inflammation, new…
CPHG’s Zang Lab Develops New Tools to Battle Cancer, Advance Genomics Research
5/26/2021
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed important new resources that will aid the battle against cancer and advance cutting-edge genomics research. UVA’s Chongzhi Zang and…
3/12/2021
The automated liquid-handling robot is large enough to claim a 12-foot-by-4-foot expanse of lab table space in its unexpected home in UVA Health’s West Complex. Last summer, University of Virginia…
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”…
UVA IDs Genes that Influence Our Risk for Deadly Coronary Artery Disease
12/9/2020
Researchers at the University of Virginia have shed light on how our genes affect our risk for coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease. In addition to…
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…
Manichaikul Lab publishes paper in Nature Communications
10/15/2020
The Manichaikul Lab published a paper today in Nature Communications. The paper is entitled: "Whole genome sequence analysis of pulmonary function and COPD in 19,996 multi-ethnic participants". Paper authors include…
Civelek Lab Among the First Class of UVA Certified Green Labs, 2019
4/7/2020
UVA Green Labs Certification is an adaptable program that allows researchers the freedom to introduce changes at their individual pace while tailoring action items to their specific processes. This year,…
CPHG’s Civelek Lab Member Finds Her Passion
3/5/2020
University of Virginia biomedical engineering student is trying to tackle the world’s No. 1 cause of death on a genetic level. Rita Anane-Wae, from Ghana by way of Glendale, Arizona,…
