Latest Department News
Latest News
Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program Finalist!
Justin Perry, PhD in the Ravichandran Laboratory, was selected as one of 35 finalists for the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program. The Hanna H. Gray aims to recruit and retain early-career scientists who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups … [Read More...]
UVA Today Story on New UVA Global Infectious Diseases Institute, Led by MIC Associate Professor Alison Criss
The UVA Global Infectious Diseases Institute, a new pan-University Institute, will support new multidisciplinary research and educational activities to combat the most urgent and notorious infectious diseases plaguing humankind throughout the world. … [Read More...]
Sho Morioka Received Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation Award
Sho Morioka, PhD in the Ravichandran lab was selected for the Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation Award this year. The award was given to postdoctoral researchers, assistant, associate and professors worldwide. The foundation was established by Kaiun … [Read More...]
New Grant Supporting Research by Graduate Student in Kashatus Lab!
Sarbajeet Nagdas has received an F30 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to support his research in the Kashatus Lab. The three year fellowship titled "Physiological Role of Dynamin-Related Protein 1 in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.” … [Read More...]
Research study provides encouraging evidence in favor of SMAPs as potential anticancer drugs.
MIC Professor David Brautigan led one team of a multi-institutional project developing small molecule activators of protein phosphatase-2A , called SMAPs. The results were published on May 15, 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. (PMID … [Read More...]
