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Drs. Ambati & Gelfand Describe How Sex is Impeding Medical Progress

11/17/2023

Medical research that could improve patient outcomes and transform treatments is being hindered by a lack of genetic research tools that consider biological sex, two UVA School of Medicine experts…

Research in Motion – Jayakrishna Ambati, MD

9/12/2023

Video by Harry Moxley "My team and I tackle something called inflammation and how it promotes aging in diseases like Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and diabetes, and we’ve been able…

Drs. Ambati, MD & Gelfand Cytosolic DNAs In Age-Related Disorders

9/12/2023

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3.14 million grant to Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, and Bradley Gelfand, PhD, to further their research into cytosolic DNAs in aging and age-related…

Bradley Gelfand, PhD Awarded $2.6 Million Grant to Study Sex-Specific Responses to IgG1 Antibodies on Growth of Blood Vessels

6/30/2023

Bradley Gelfand, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, was awarded a $2.6 million grant for a study titled “Mechanistic basis of sexual dimorphism in antigen-independent IgG1 angiogenesis…

Discovery of Potential New Way to Prevent Vision Loss

2/23/2023

UVA Health School of Medicine scientists have discovered an unknown contributor to harmful blood vessel growth in the eye that could lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and…

Drs. Ambati and Gelfand Receive $3.1M R01 Grant from NIH

10/26/2022

The NIH has awarded a $3.1M grant to Jayakrishna Ambati, MD and Bradley Gelfand, PhD to research their exciting discovery that “jumping genes” called SINE elements have increased activity in…

UVA Honors Faculty for Their Research and Scholarship: Jayakrishna Ambati, School of Medicine

3/17/2022

A dynamic, innovative and creative physician-scientist and a preeminent leader in the field of macular degeneration research, Jayakrishna Ambati’s innovative applications of data science have revealed a slew of surprising…

UVA Discovers Harmful Inflammation Trigger in Lupus, Macular Degeneration

1/21/2022

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have made a discovery linking lupus, a potentially debilitating autoimmune disorder, and macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. The two diseases share…

Faculty Spotlight: New Diagnostic Tool to Aid in Identifying Leading Cause of Blindness

1/21/2022

In the summer of 2017, Xiaorong Liu came to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of biology and psychology, though it was not her first time on Grounds.…

Scientists Find Toxic Buildup in Eyes of Patients with Blinding Macular Degeneration

10/12/2021

Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, new research from the University of…