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…
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…
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…
Common HIV Drugs May Help Prevent Leading Cause of Vision Loss
2/10/2021
Scientists have identified a group of drugs that may help stop a leading cause of vision loss after making an unexpected discovery that overturns a fundamental belief about DNA. The…