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Watch Dr. Jay Fox in an interview about snake bites: WTVR: "RICHMOND, Va. - According to the World Health Organization, up to 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes…
Park Lab develops model to test numerous cancer genes and mutations simultaneously
One of the biggest obstacles for cancer researchers today is the sheer volume of variables at play when a healthy cell turns cancerous. This often makes it difficult for researchers…
Alison Criss Laboratory Reveals How ‘Super Gonorrhea’ Resists the Human Immune System
"UVA’s new research sheds important light on how the gonorrhea bacterium defeats the body’s antimicrobial defenses. Gonorrhea, the scientists determined, takes a two-fisted approach to neutralizing lysozyme, an enzyme that…
Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)
We are proud to announce that Becky Stanhope from Isabelle Derré's laboratory received a score of 10 on her F31 application “ Characterization of a Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion membrane protein…
Congratulations 2018-2019 CIC/MIC Postdoctoral Travel Award Winners!
Claire Rosean and Robin Lindsay won the 2018-2019 CIC/MIC Postdoctoral Travel Award. This award is intended to aid in the professional development within the applicant's area of expertise, by supporting…
F31 fellowship to support graduate research on C. difficile
Alyse Frisbee was awarded an F31 fellowship to support her graduate research, "Balancing TLR2 and IL-33 immune pathways to protect during epidemic C. difficile infection" in Bill Petri's lab. This…
Pioneering New 3D Cancer Model to Speed New Treatments
Dan Gioeli, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology and the UVA Cancer Center, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, has created a three-dimensional model of a cancer tumor that can…
MIC Group reveals how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA.
Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, Drs. Mitch Smith, Dean Kedes and Margret Grant and Laboratory technicians Aiola Stoja and Matt Loftus in the Department of Microbiology at the University of…
Dr. Drew Dudley at the Award Ceremony of the AARC
Drew Dudley received the Bayer/AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Innovation and Discovery Award this month at the Annual AACR meeting in Chicago.
Congratulations to Anna Cliffe on receiving an R01 to support her research on “Cell stress-mediated changes in the Herpes simplex virus type 1 chromatin structure during reactivation from latent infection”.…
