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Patient-focused research gets a boost from the Cancer Center’s new biomedical innovation fund.

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UVA Researchers Hope To Flip the Switch on Blood Pressure Control

UVA Researchers Hope To Flip the Switch on Blood Pressure Control

They discovered a “switch” that enables certain cells to produce a key substance, providing insight into potential treatments for hypertension.

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UVA Researchers Awarded $3.1 Million to Study How Treatments Targeting Lipoprotein Receptors Improve Outcomes in Heart Attacks and Heart Failure - Research - Medicine in Motion News

UVA Researchers Awarded $3.1 Million to Study How Treatments Targeting Lipoprotein Receptors Improve Outcomes in Heart Attacks and Heart Failure

Backed by a new four-year $3.1 million National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant, School of Medicine researchers Antonio Abbate, MD, PhD, Jeff Saucerman, PhD, and Stefano Toldo, PhD, have initiated a new study to examine cell-specific low-densi...

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Mark Quigg, MD, Awarded a Five-Year NIH Grant to Lead Clinical Trials Methodology Course at UVA - Research - Medicine in Motion News

Mark Quigg, MD, Awarded a Five-Year NIH Grant to Lead Clinical Trials Methodology Course at UVA

Mark Quigg, MD, the TR Johns Professor of Neurology and director of the UVA’s Clinical Neurophysiology Labs, was awarded a NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) grant to lead the Clinical Trial Methodology Course (CTMC...

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Research in Motion: James Zimring, MD, PhD - Medicine in Motion News

Research in Motion: James Zimring, MD, PhD

We study the biology and the diseases of red blood cells, which are the most abundant cell in the human body. And not only are they a source of disease during infections like malaria, but also they are themselves a treatment, because we transfuse fiv...

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