Tajie Harris, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study How the Immune System Benefits the Brain

Tajie Harris, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was awarded a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, titled “Caspase-8 mediated control of CNS infection.” The Ha...

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Ling Qi, PhD, Awarded $4.1 Million to Investigate Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis

The National Institute on Aging awarded a prestigious $4.1 million R01 grant to a pioneering, multi-principal investigator team led by Ling Qi, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at the Universit...

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UVA Engineering Professor’s $600,000 Grant Set to Innovate Pediatric Brain Tumor Treatment

New BRAIN Initiative Research Grant to Improve Novel Tools for the Study of Neural Circuits

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 of neural circuits. The new $1.3 million R01 grant is the first-ev...

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