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Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology is the largest basic science department at UVA, comprising an outstanding group of faculty, students and post-doctoral fellows conducting cutting-edge research in many exciting areas of basic biology and human disease.

Our research takes an integrated and cross-disciplinary approach to address questions in three key major fields: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology.

Dr. Michael Kovacs has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student!

Dr. Michael Kovacs, from Tajie Harris’s laboratory, has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student. He received his Award with the Outstanding students from the other BIMS Graduate Programs at the GBS Symposium on March 17th 2023, where he also presented a seminar of his work.

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Shoutout to MIC Student Nadia Holness!

Congratulations to Nadia Holness, graduate student in Sarah Ewald's lab, on being selected for the highly competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. Holness’ project is designed to understand how a cell recognizes that it is infected. She hopes to learn why some microbes within the host cell are detected and destroyed while others in the same cell evade immune clearance.

Katarzyna Stasiak was selected “PWP Scholar” 2022

Please join us in congratulating Katarzyna Stasiak (Vic Engelhard’s lab) who has been selected as the second “PWP Scholar” supported by the “Sarah J. Parsons-Michael J. Weber- J. Thomas Parsons (PWP) Fellowship in Oncology Research” endowment in partnership with the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology.

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Welcome MIC students! Twelve new PhD students joined MIC and were celebrated in the White Coat ceremony.

The dengue virus combines molecules from its RNA with mosquito saliva to foil the human immune system

Melanie Rutkowski, PhD awarded new grant: Gut microbiome-mediated differences within the pre-malignant mammary tissue environment enhance early breast tumor metastasis

Roger Abounader, MD, PhD Principal Investigator for American Cancer Society Research Grant

Melissa Kendall, PhD Awarded $2.4 Million Grant to Study How Bacterial Pathogens Rely on RNA Binding Proteins to Establish Infection and Cause Disease

Dr. Michael Kovacs has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student!

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Support Our Research

Every Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer researcher is dedicated to discovering the mechanisms that will eventually lead to new understandings of diseases and their cures. Your contribution can help ensure our efforts in furthering this research. Please consider contributing to:
Robert Kadner Memorial Fund 14702
Parsons-Weber-Parsons Fellowship 21057
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology 12331

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