Good Around Grounds Spotlight on Genome Science’s Yogi Raghav

5/19/2026

Good Around Grounds: Yogindra Raghav This month’s Good Around Grounds Student Spotlight recognizes Yogindra “Yogi” Raghav, a PhD student in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics whose impact extends far beyond the…

Genome Sciences Faculty Develop Genetic Research Tool to Accelerate New Treatments, Benefit More Patients

4/23/2026

Researchers Xiaowei Hu, PhD, and Ani Manichaikul, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a new approach to genetic research that is poised to accelerate the development…

2 DGS Trainees Receive 2026 Todorovic Travel Awards

4/22/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Todorovic Travel Award Recipients Lucia Wagner (G2, lab of Charles Farber) Patrick Hart (G1, lab of Clint Miller) Each awardee will receive $750 to support conference attendance. Lucia…

NIH Awards Stephen Rich, PhD, $2.8 Million to Study Large-Scale Data to Analyze Risk Factors for Developing Obesity

11/5/2025

Stephen Rich, PhD Stephen Rich, PhD, the Harrison Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, was awarded a new $2.8 million R01 grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and…

Charles Farber, PhD, and Abhijit Dighe, PhD, Awarded $3.4 Million NIH Grant to Unravel Genetic Drivers of Osteoporosis

8/25/2025

Abhijit S. Dighe, PhD, (left) and Charles R. Farber, PhD The University of Virginia has been awarded a new $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal…

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…

CPHG’s Graham Casey and Collaborators Publish Research on a Large Colorectal Cancer Genome-wide Association Study in Nature

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 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…