6/10/2020
Please join us in congratulating Isabelle Derre – she has been promoted to Associate Professor! Isabelle had excellent credentials and received high praise from her peers throughout the country.
6/10/2020
Dr. Sarah Ewald has had a great couple of weeks. First, she got the 3-year R21 Trailblazer Award, and now she has received the R35 Early Stage Investigator MIRA award…
5/16/2020
Congratulations to the 9 MIC students who received their PhDs on May 16 and the 2 MSTPs who received their dual degrees! They were all celebrated at the BIMS ceremony…
Chris Medina – Peach Award Winner!
5/4/2020
Congratulations to MIC Student Chris Medina from the Ravichandran lab for winning the 2020 Michael J Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Award!
Team-Up Targets Spinal Cord Injuries
4/29/2020
Kodi Ravichandran, PhD, and Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, are teaming up to understand why critical nerve cells called neurons continue to die after spinal cord injuries. So little is known that…
Research and testing of antiviral drug that could possibly treat #COVID-19
4/4/2020
“This is the first clinical trial to demonstrate an effective treatment for COVID-19,” said Patrick Jackson, MD, the principal investigator of the trial at UVA. “Remdesivir will be one tool…
12/12/2019
CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Criss! Being elected to a major leadership position in such an important professional society is a tribute to Dr. Criss' successful research program and leadership. Most of all,…
12/2/2019
On Tuesday, November 19th, the Web of Science Group revealed its annual list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019. Six faculty members from the University of Virginia were among those…
Pancreatic Cancer Discovery Reveals How the Aggressive Cancer Fuels Its Growth
9/27/2019
A new discovery about pancreatic cancer sheds light on how the cancer fuels its growth and may help explain how promising cancer drugs work – and for whom they will…
Erickson Lab Ids Biological Changes Triggered by Tick Bites
8/21/2019
Loren Erickson has, for the first time, identified key immunological changes in people who abruptly develop an allergic reaction to mammalian meat, such as beef. His work also provides an…
