F31 fellowship to support graduate research on C. difficile
6/14/2018
Alyse Frisbee was awarded an F31 fellowship to support her graduate research, "Balancing TLR2 and IL-33 immune pathways to protect during epidemic C. difficile infection" in Bill Petri's lab. This…
Pioneering New 3D Cancer Model to Speed New Treatments
5/15/2018
Dan Gioeli, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology and the UVA Cancer Center, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, has created a three-dimensional model of a cancer tumor that can…
MIC Group reveals how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA.
5/11/2018
Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, Drs. Mitch Smith, Dean Kedes and Margret Grant and Laboratory technicians Aiola Stoja and Matt Loftus in the Department of Microbiology at the University of…
Dr. Drew Dudley at the Award Ceremony of the AARC
4/19/2018
Drew Dudley received the Bayer/AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Innovation and Discovery Award this month at the Annual AACR meeting in Chicago.
3/22/2018
Congratulations to Anna Cliffe on receiving an R01 to support her research on “Cell stress-mediated changes in the Herpes simplex virus type 1 chromatin structure during reactivation from latent infection”.…
Congratulations to Drew Dudley, PhD who has received a Bayer/AACR Innovation and Discovery Award
1/2/2018
Congratulations to Drew Dudley who has received a Bayer/AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Innovation and Discovery Award. This grant will promote the key tenets of the Bayer Grants4Targets Initiative, providing…
12/13/2017
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is CRI's longest-standing continuous program. Postdoctoral fellowships provide support to fund and train young immunologists and cancer immunologists at top universities…
Alison Criss, PhD selected as a 2018 Pinn Scholar
12/13/2017
Congratulations to Alison Criss, PhD! The Scholars program is named in honor of Dr. Vivian Pinn who was a graduate of the UVA School of Medicine Class of 1967. She…
Sho Morioka Received Kanae Foundation Grant Award
11/8/2017
Sho Morioka, PhD in the Ravichandran lab was selected for Kanae Foundation Grant Award this year. The main goal of the project is to explore how facilitating removal of apoptotic…
10/24/2017
“One of the underlying questions about breast cancer is why do some individuals with breast cancer develop more aggressive or metastatic disease? And why is there so much variability in…
