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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Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, Receives 2024 Eugene M. Landis Award from the Microcirculatory Society, Inc.
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, the Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of Biomedical Engineering, was honored with the 2024 Eugene M. Landis Award by the Microcirculatory Society, Inc. for her lab’s research. Established in 1969, this a...
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Marc Breton, MD, and Mark DeBoer, MD, Awarded $2.8 Million to Study Innovations to Enhance Activity-Aware Automated Insulin Delivery
Automated insulin delivery has quickly become the gold standard for clinical care in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and UVA has long been at the forefront of this technological revolution. In a new project backed by a $2.8 million grant from the National Inst...
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Jonathan Lindner, MD, and Brent French, PhD, Awarded $2.9 Million to Study Ultrasound Cavitation
Jonathan Lindner, MD, the Francis Myers Ball Professor of Medicine and vice-chief for research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Brent French, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and cardiovascular medicine, were award...
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Research in Motion: Madhusmita Misra, MD
Girls with anorexia nervosa and athletes who lose their periods have low bone density and increased fracture risk. We’ve elucidated the mechanisms leading to low bone density in these young women, and also developed therapeutic strategies to addres...
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