Amy Mathers, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine & Pathology, Division of Infectious Disease and International Health at UVA has been studying molecular epidemiology for more than ten years. Her expertise in tracking bacterial DNA sequences has a...
By: Emily Dinning (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications) UVA Today University of Virginia Health System researchers have developed a potential therapeutic treatment for dry eye, with human testing to start in March. The drug differs from o...
By Eric Swensen UVA TODAY Editor's note: For information about participating in the study, click here. A device developed by University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers to automatically monitor and regulate blood-sugar levels in people wi...
By Katie McNally (UVA Today) Universityof Virginia cell biologist John Herr believes that the most ground-breaking findings always start with an insight built on basic science. He would know; his steady research on the development of sperm and eggs h...
By Katie McNally (UVA Today) University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new strategy for attacking cancer cells that could fundamentally alter the way doctors treat and prevent the deadly disease. By more selectively targ...
By Josh Barney (UVA Today) In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previous...
By Lynn Woodson (UVA Today) A tool designed to diagnose Ebola quickly and cheaply could save countless lives, allowing for earlier isolation and care of patients while reducing future outbreaks. That’s exactly what University of Virginia researchers ...
UVA Today Two faculty members are the first from the University of Virginia to be named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an accolade created in 2010 to recognize those who invent or facilitate significant patents issued by the United Sta...
Neoantigenics LLC, a new biotechnology company founded on discoveries made by Dr. John Herr at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, announced today it has entered into an early-stage research and development collaboration with Pfizer Inc. T...
By Josh Barney (UVA Today) University of Virginia School of Medicine professor Dr. Erik Hewlett has received the state’s highest honor for college faculty. Hewlett, a professor of medicine, infectious diseases and international health at the School o...