Department of Genome Sciences Celebrates National DNA With Local Middle School Students
5/8/2025
National DNA Day, observed every year on April 25, commemorates two pivotal moments in scientific history: the discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953 and the completion of the…
New Tool Streamlines Genomic Research, Accelerating Biomedical Breakthroughs
4/3/2025
Nathan Sheffield, PhD A University of Virginia School of Medicine scientist and collaborators have developed a much-needed new tool to increase the efficiency of genomic research and accelerate the development…
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Receives Approval for New PhD Program in Computational Biology
7/11/2024
In July of 2017, Nathan Sheffield, PhD (then Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences and resident member of the Center for Public Health Genomics) and Janet Cross, PhD (then Assistant…
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…