Congratulations to Dr. Richard Mailman
10/27/2025
Dr. Richard Mailman has spent decades working to get the Parkinson’s drug Tavapadon to patients. After tireless effort, the pharmaceutical company AbbVie has finally submitted the drug to the FDA…
Bland Lab Has a New Paper Published in PNAS
10/21/2025
The Bland Lab has a new paper published in PNAS, The insulin-like peptides Dilp2 and Dilp6 exhibit divergent responses to dietary sugar and protein in Drosophila larvae. Their results suggest…
10/2/2025
Doug Bayliss, PhD, the Joseph & Frances Larner Professor, and his research group in the Department of Pharmacology, were awarded a new four-year $2.8 million grant from the National Heart…
Dr.’s Ling Qi and Shengyi Sun Publish New Research in Nature Cell Biology
7/21/2025
A newly published review in Nature Cell Biology by Drs. Ling Qi and Shengyi Sun, along with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Huilun Helen Wang and collaborator Dr. Ida Biunno, provides a…
Leitinger Lab Biolabs Student, Kasia Bednarczyk, Receives Young Investigator Award
6/11/2025
The 2025 22nd SFRR-I Biennial meeting hosted by SFRR-E was held from June 3-6, 2025 in Galway, Ireland, at the University of Galway campus, and the theme this year was: The…
Katarzyna Bednarczyk (Leitinger Lab) Receives Travel Award
6/4/2025
Katarzyna Bednarczyk (Leitinger Lab) is one of the recipients of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine's travel award ($1,000 USD) given to member trainees to help them present her…
Research in Motion: Mark Beenhakker, PhD
5/22/2025
Department of Pharmacology’s Dr. Mark Beenhakker has been featured in this week’s Research in Motion, a video series highlighting the diverse research topics of UVA School of Medicine faculty. "My…
Research in Motion: Michelle Bland, PhD
5/8/2025
Department of Pharmacology's Dr. Michelle Bland has been featured in this week's Research in Motion, a video series highlighting the diverse research topics of UVA School of Medicine faculty. "My…
4/24/2025
Doug Bayliss, PhD, the Joseph & Frances Larner Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and Yingtang Shi, MD, an assistant professor of research in the Department of Pharmacology,…
3/27/2025
Ling Qi, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, and Shengyi (Iris) Sun, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, and their research…




