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2026 Research Faculty Retreat - Friday, February 27, 2026

The School of Medicine is excited to announce the next SOM Faculty Research Retreat is scheduled for Friday, February 27, 2026 at Newcomb Hall Ballroom. Mark your calendars now and save the date for this engaging and informative event!

Retreat activities will begin on Friday morning and run through the entire day. The programming for the 2026 retreat will have some changes in keeping with the fiscal responsibility measures that have been impacting research. In spite of this, the School of Medicine (SOM) and the Research Advisory Committee would like to offer a chance for SOM researchers to connect and celebrate the wonderful work that is being done!

Location:  Newcomb Hall Ballroom

Date: Friday, February 27, 2026

Times: 8:30am – 4:45pm

Reception: 4:45-5:45 PM

Lunch will be provided

Parking:
Parking passes will be provided to those whose normal parking assignments are not on Grounds or at Fontaine.

Eligibility:

Registration is open to SOM Faculty only.  Register here InfoReady

Highlights of the Retreat

Bench to Bedside Symposia Format

SOM Faculty Research Retreat will feature four mini-symposia, each with speakers from a range of basic, translational, clinical, data, or public health sciences and following a central theme from bench to bedside.

Symposium Topics Include:

  • Aging: Health and Disease
  • Mitochondria at the Crossroads of Stress, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Imaging in Research and Medicine
  • Psychedelic Science and Research

Pinn Scholar Talks

Four recent Pinn Scholar awardees will share their developing projects. Speakers include:

  • Huiwang Ai
  • Xiaowei Lu
  • Jennifer Payne
  • Chongzhi Zang

In 2024, nearly 300 School of Medicine research faculty gathered  for two days on February 2 and 3. They explored the topic “Emerging Approaches and Biotechnologies” in a variety of sessions.

Read about the 2024 research retreat and competition.

2024 Faculty Research Retreat Program

2024 Faculty Research Retreat program

Anderson Lecture 2026

Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhDRichard Lifton, MD, PhD
President
Carson Family Professor
Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics
The Rockefeller University 

Title of Lecture: From Genetics and Genomics to New Therapeutics

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
4:00-5:00 PM
Medical Education Auditorium

Dr. Richard (Rick) Lifton has pioneered the use of genetics and genomics to understand fundamental mechanisms underlying human diseases, including cardiovascular disease, neoplasia, kidney disease, and osteoporosis. He is especially known for research on hypertension and salt intake, work which has informed public health efforts and therapeutic strategies used worldwide.

Dr. Lifton received his B.A. in biological sciences from Dartmouth College, followed by an M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. He completed his medical residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital prior to establishing his research laboratory at Yale University. Dr. Lifton was appointed as chair of Yale’s Department of Genetics in 1998 and was the executive director of the Yale Center for Genome Analysis, which he founded in 2009. In May 2016, Dr. Lifton was named the 11th President of Rockefeller University.

Dr. Lifton is a 2014 Breakthrough Prize winner, a 2008 recipient of the Wiley Prize for Biomedical Sciences, and has received the highest scientific honors of the American Heart Association, the American and International Societies of Nephrology, the American and International Societies of Hypertension, and the Endocrine Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine and served as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 1994 until assuming the Rockefeller presidency. He was the co-chair of the planning committee for President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015.

Refreshments to follow the lecture, Medical Education Building, first floor lobby

 

September  2026 – More details to follow

Eva Nogales, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular and Cell Biology Department, UC Berkeley
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Title of Lecture:  TBA

 

About the Anderson Lecture and Symposia

The John F. Anderson Memorial Lectureship was established in 1955 by Dr. John F. Anderson, a graduate in 1895 of the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Through his gift to the University, it has been possible to establish a lectureship in medical science and public health which will bring to this medical community the latest developments in these fields.

Dr. Anderson made many outstanding contributions to the science of medicine during his long career of service and leadership in public health, medical research, and medical production. Dr. Anderson was the third director of the Hygienic Laboratory (the predecessor of the National Institute of Health) and was among the early scientists who made the Laboratory well-known in scientific circles.

Dean's New Faculty Research Seminar Series Speaker Archive 2025

Each month, the School of Medicine hosted a seminar highlighting two recently hired assistant professors to present a 30-minute introduction to their research program. The goal was to introduce our talented new faculty to the broader research community within the UVA School of Medicine and to potentially seed new cross-school collaborations.

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