News and Events
David L. Brautigan elected as a Fellow of the AAAS!
David L. Brautigan , MIC faculty member and Director, Center for Cell Signaling, has been elected as a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association of the Advancement of Science), a…
Dr. Bouton elected to serve on the Cabtrac Executive Board
Congratulations to Dr. Amy H. Bouton who was elected to serve a 3-year term on the Cabtrac (Cancer Biology Training Consortium) Executive Board. We are excited that she is able…
Excellence in Research Award for Melissa Kendall, PhD
“Her experiments are creative and thorough. She is an excellent scientific thinker as well as a top-tier experimentalist.” – Colleague “Melissa is working on a problem that is scientifically very…
Congratulations to the 2016 Postdoctoral Research Symposium Winners!
Dustin Cobb, PhD and Kallesh Danappa Jayappa, PhD won prizes for their research at the UVA 2016 Postdoctoral Research Symposium! Dustin Cobb in the Young Hahn Laboratory won Second Prize for this poster presentation…
"The annual award was created several years ago by the Office of the Vice President for Research to recognize faculty members who have made influential and longtime contributions to the…
Dr. Ravichandran Receives Odysseus 1 Award
Congratulations to Kodi Ravichandran, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor and Chair of our department, on receiving the Odysseus 1 Award, from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium. This award, provided by the…
We welcome Anna Cliffe to our department! Anna Cliffe, PhD is a new assistant professor and investigates the mechanism of herpes simplex virus (HSV) latency and reactivation in neurons.
We welcome associate professor Andrew Dudley, PhD to our department! His research is focused on the tumor microenvironment and mechanisms of tumor neovascularization. Find out more about the Dudley Lab HERE.
Congratulations to Jeffrey Teoh was awarded the Shyr-Te Jun Award by the Department of Medicine at the 2016 Carey-Marshall-Thorner Research and Scholars Day for a poster presentation on Acute virus-specific responses…
Nature Microbiology publishes PhD thesis work on the epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile!
Carrie Cowardin, former MIC graduate student with Bill Petri, and now postdoc with Jeff Gordon at Washington University, just published in Nature Microbiology her PhD thesis work on the epidemic…
