Simona Bajgai and Rossymar Rivera won Best Trainee Talk awards!

3/5/2026

Congratulations to Ross and Simona for winning one of the Best Trainee Talk awards (out of >200 talks) at the 2026 TRCCC (Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium)!

Graduate student Patryk Krakowiak receives an American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship Award!

1/23/2025

Patryk Krakowiak a graduate student from the Cliffe Lab received a prestigious two year long Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Heart Association, starting January 1st 2025. His project, entitled…

Spark Innovation Competition Winner Johnson Ung!

7/24/2024

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!

7/18/2024

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…

Anna Cliffe, PhD, Awarded $3.3 Million NIH Grant to Study the Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus Latency by Polycomb Silencing

7/18/2024

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, and John Bushweller, PhD, Awarded $3.3 Million to Develop a Novel Drug Targeting ERG for Prostate Cancer Treatment

7/11/2024

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!

7/1/2024

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!

7/1/2024

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

6/13/2024

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, Awarded $2.7 Million to Study How ATRX Protein Protects Against Herpes Simplex Virus, which impacts more than 60% of the U.S. population.

5/30/2024

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…