News and Events
School of Medicine Awards 2014: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Team Science Research
Congratulations to Kodi S. Ravichandran, Douglas A. Bayliss, Norbert Leitinger, Brant Isakson, Mark Yeager, Ulrike M. Lorenz, and Bimal Desai for winning the distinguished Dean’s Award for Excellence in Team…
SOM 2014 Awards for MIC Faculty
School of Medicine Awards 2014: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Alison Criss, PhD received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! Information about the award can be found here.…
Article of significant interest by Laura Gonyar
Congratulations to Laura Gonyar, a graduate student in the Kendall lab - her article, "Ethanolamine and choline promote expression of putative and characterized fimbriae in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7" was chosen as a…
Gene helps HIV virus adapt and maybe hide from the immune system
MIC Myles H. Thaler Center Professors Lou Hammarskjöld, MD, PhD and David Rekosh, PhD discovered how a specific HIV gene helps the virus adapt, and it may also help HIV…
Winner of the 2014 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology.
Brittany Johnson (from Alison Criss's laboratory), has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology. Brittany will receive the Wagner Award…
2014 MIC Outstanding Student Award
Christine Coquery (from Loren Erickson’s laboratory), has been selected as the the 2014 MIC Outstanding Student, and will be the MIC Graduate Program's nominee for the Peach and Hungerford Awards.…
Fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Program
Dr. Denis Tebit, Assistant Professor of Research at the Myles Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retroviruses, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, was recently awarded a Fellowship by…
James Walker retired on February 21 from our department after 34 years of service to UVA. We appreciate all of his very reliable work, energy, flexibility, kindness and help in…
“What better example of interdisciplinary collaborative team science is there at UVa SOM? is team includes geneticists and molecular and cell biologists working in concert with a biostatistician and a…