News and Events
Spark Innovation Competition Winner Johnson Ung!
Congratulations to Johnson Ung, whose ideas and project to "improve experience for prospective and current postdoctoral fellows across UVA Health" was chosen as a project that will focus on uncovering…
Committee on Women in Medicine and Science (COWIMS) Woman of the Month: Caroline Riedstra!
During July, the Committee on Women in Medicine and Science (COWIMS) is celebrating UV Safety Month and is honored to recognize Ms. Caroline Riedstra, a PhD candidate in the lab of Andrew…
The new R01 will investigate the contribution of a form of gene silencing known as Polycomb silencing in both the establishment of HSV latency and reactivation. Polycomb silencing is a…
Dan Gioeli, PhD, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer, and John Bushweller, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and the…
Wagner Fellowship for Mary Wakim!
Congratulations to Mary Broden from the Alison Criss lab who was award a Wagner Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year!
Parsons-Weber-Parsons (PWP) scholar Nicole Kirk!
Nicole Kirk from the Kwon Park lab has been selected as the “Parsons-Weber-Parsons (PWP) scholar” for the 2024-25 academic year. Congratulations Nicole! This award is supported by the Sarah J.…
Kwon Park, PhD Selected as Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow
Kwon Park, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology has been selected to serve as University of Virginia Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellows from July 1, 2024 through June 30,…
Anna Cliffe, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was awarded a $2.7 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a…
MIC’s new primary faculty member Dr. Uday Tak comes to us from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is interested in the mechanisms and evolution of innate immune signaling and…
MIC’s new primary faculty member Dr. Brady Spencer comes to us from University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus. She is interested in bacterial pathogenesis as well as host-pathogen interactions during systemic…
