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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Thomas Loughran, MD, and Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, Awarded $3.4 Million to Study Genomic Architecture of Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, director of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, have been awarded a five-year, $3.4 million National Cancer Institute grant to study the ge...
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Research in Motion: Jay Fox, PhD
Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites. Since that time, we’ve been able to develop antibodies as well as a...
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Third Summer of Success for the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center STRIVE Program
The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Short-Term Research Initiative for Visiting Educators (STRIVE) program enjoyed a third year of success this summer. The program invites professors from historically Black colleges and universities and other min...
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