MIC’s Garcia-Blanco member of AAAS!
10/6/2023
MIC’s Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, has been inducted in September 2023 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary…
Discovery Will Aid Gut-Microbiome Research Efforts
1/5/2023
The collaboration between Melanie Rutkowski, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology and Chemistry professor Marcos Pires, PhD, examines novel methods to fluorescently ’tag’ and visualize gut commensal bacteria.…
Godfrey Dzhivhuho wins Leonard “Pug” Evans Post-Doc Presentation Award for best oral presentation
11/2/2022
The MIC department and the Hammarskjold-Rekosh Lab are very proud of Godfrey Dzhivhuho! Godfrey who won the Leonard “Pug” Evans Post-Doc Presentation Award for best oral presentation in the "Postdoc"…
Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, Awarded $2.4M NIH Grant
10/13/2022
Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, a professor of MIC (Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology), and neurology, the Arthur and Margaret Ebbert Endowed Chair of Medical Science, and associate director of basic…
Hui Zong Hui Zong, PhD Named Innovation Fund Investigator by Pew Chartitable Trusts
9/29/2022
Congratulations to Hui Zong and his team! Hui Zong, PhD, an associate professor in our department and P. Todd Stukenberg, PhD, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular…
9/22/2022
“We show gut commensal dysbiosis, an unhealthy and inflammatory gut microbiome, systemically changes the mammary tissues of mice that do not have cancer. The tissue changes enhance infiltration of mast…
Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD will be the next Chair of our Department
9/20/2022
Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, will lead our Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology. He is an internationally recognized expert in virology and RNA biology and comes to UVA…
Congratulations to MIC postdoc Kee-Beom Kim from the Kwon Park Lab!
8/12/2022
What a great accomplishment! MIC postdoc, Kee-Beom Kim (center) is going to start his own laboratory as assistant professor at Kyungpook National University in Korea, beginning on September 1! Below is…
Nadia Holness in Sarah Ewald’s Laboratory receives HHMI Gilliam fellowship!
8/1/2022
Congratulations to Nadia Holness, Microbiology graduate student in Sarah Ewald's Laboratory, on being selected for the highly competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. The Gilliam Program invests in graduate…
Six MIC Faculty Members received Promotions!
7/31/2022
Congratulations to six of our faculty members: Top row: Anna Cliffe, Sarah Ewald, Melanie Rutkowski were promoted to Associate Professor Bottom row: Rusty Elliott, Dan Gioeli, and Melissa Kendall were…
