New BRAIN Initiative Research Grant to Improve Novel Tools for the Study of Neural Circuits
8/15/2024
Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of novel tools for the study…
Elzbieta Dulko and Anna Grace Carns Receive Double Hoo Award!
8/7/2024
Beenhakker Lab Graduate Student Elzbieta Dulko and Undergraduate Anna Grace Carns recently received the Double Hoo Research Grant for their research on "Challenging the Dogma of Childhood Absence Epilepsy". The…
Vlad Serbulea, PhD, Receives AHA Career Development Award
8/6/2024
Assistant Research Professor of Pharmacology, Vlad Serbulea, has received an American Heart Association Career Development Award for his research on Glucocorticoids. This award supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals,…
7/25/2024
On June 13, 2024, the Department of Pharmacology celebrated the retirement of Carl Creutz, PhD, who was recruited to the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia as an…
Congratulations Rachel Clements on Receiving F31 Funding!!!
7/9/2024
The Pharmacology Department would like to congratulate Rachel Clements on receiving funding from the NIH in the form of an F31 grant. The title of her project is “Regulation of…
Congratulations Rachel Clements on Receipt of a Wagner Fellowship!
6/27/2024
Rachel Clements, Neuroscience Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Doug Bayliss, was awarded a Wagner fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year, congratulations Rachel! Through the Wagner Fellowship fund, Dr.…
Mark Beenhakker, PhD, Receives Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship!
6/13/2024
Congratulations to Pharmacology's Mark Beenhakker, PhD, who was selected as a member of the second cohort of Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellows. The Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship program was launched last…
Pharmacology Graduate Student Bena Chan Receives F31 Funding
6/11/2024
Congratulations to Bena Chan on receiving funding from an F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her grant proposal: “Mutual regulation between membrane rafts and…
Pharmacology Emeriti Professors’s Company, KeViRx, Inc. Awarded $1.99 Million
6/11/2024
UVA Pharmacology Emeriti Professors John Lazo and Elizabeth Sharlow, who are co-founders of the pharmaceutical company KeViRx, Inc. have been granted $1.99 million to advance their first-in-class small molecule platform…
Research in Motion: Shengyi Iris Sun, PhD
6/6/2024
Our research focuses on protein quality control process in the endoplasmic reticulum, which is an important hub for protein production in the cells. —Shengyi Iris Sun, PhD, Associate Professor, Department…
