Ani Manichaikul is a 2022 Pinn Scholar!
3/31/2022
CPHG congratulates Dr. Ani Manichaikul who has been named to the 2022 class of UVA Pinn Scholars! The Pinn Scholars Award is named in honor of the extraordinary career of…
Civelek Lab’s Zhiwen Xu Selected as 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholar
3/30/2022
Congratulations to Zhiwen Xu in Mete Civelek’s Lab. Zhiwen was selected as a 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholar. The scholarship program, which honors Senator Barry Goldwater, was designed to foster and…
CPHG’s Stephen Rich and Aakrosh Ratan Help Develop New Tool Called “Giraffe”
3/9/2022
Scientists, including two University of Virginia researchers, have developed a powerful, inclusive new tool for genomic research that boosts efforts to develop more precise treatments for many diseases by leveraging…
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…
Chongzhi Zang and Lab Members Publish Findings in Nature Immunology
2/24/2022
With scientists counting on our immune systems’ “memory” to provide long-term protection against severe COVID-19, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have shed light on how…
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 Leads Largest-Ever Type 1 Diabetes Genetic Study Which Identifies Potential Treatment Targets
7/22/2021
Scientists have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of Type 1 diabetes ever undertaken, identifying new drug targets to treat a condition that affects 1.3 million American adults.…
CPHG Affiliate Faculty Member, Eric Turkheimer, Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
4/23/2021
The dean of the University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an acclaimed UVA psychology professor have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of…
CPHG Team Performs Vital Research in Groundbreaking TOPMed Human Genome Project
4/2/2021
Scientists Scour Genes of More Than 53,000 People to Better Battle Dangerous Diseases DNA processing in a genomics research lab. (Photo courtesy National Cancer Institute) April 01, 2021 A new…
Former CPHG Faculty Member Aaron Quinlan Chats with the American Journal of Human Genetics
4/1/2021
Inside AJHG: A Chat with Aaron Quinlan Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper. This month, we check in with…
