News and Events
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…
Research Image by MIC Graduate Student on Cover Page of “Cytometry”
Congratulations to Aldo Nascimento in the Dave Kashatus laboratory whose research made in onto the cover page of "Cytometry"! This was a collaboration with the Flow Cytometry Core at UVA.…
Kwon Park Laboratory finds way to inhibit growth of small cell lung cancer
"The scientists were able to halt the progression of small cell lung cancer tumors in genetically engineered mice. This was a notable achievement because small cell lung cancer is known…
Aldo Nascimento in the Kashatus Lab receives external funding!
Congratulations to Aldo on receiving his own NCI Grant! Aldo was awarded a F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute for his work on "Tumor-associated physiological changes arising from Ras-induced…
Appointment as Chair of the NCI-I Study Section
Dr. Amy H. Bouton, PhD, Associate Dean of Graduate and Medical Scientist Programs and Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology began serving as the Chair of the NCI-I study…
Rising 4th and 5th year MIC graduate students receive 2016 Wagner Fellowship Award
Stephanie Ragland in the Alison Criss Laboratory and CJ Anderson in the Melissa Kendall laboratory are selected to receive the Wagner Fellowship Award. They were selected by the Directors of…
