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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…

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.…

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…

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 Global Infectious Diseases Institute led by MIC Associate Professor Alison Criss, Ph.D has been chosen to be a UVA Pan-University Institute

The UVA Pan-University Institutes will bring together faculty and students in diverse areas of scholarship from schools across Grounds to engage in collaborative, transdisciplinary research, addressing some of society’s most…

Jacqueline Stevens wins GBS Symposium Research Poster Award

Jacqueline Stevens from Alison Criss’s lab won first place in the GBS Symposium Research Poster Awards.

Claudia Han Receives Michael J. Peach Award

Claudia Han from Kodi Ravichandran’s lab won the Michael J Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Award.  Congratulations!!

March for Science in Washington DC

"Cville takes science to the Capitol in NEWS / by Kate Lewis   Thousands of scientists and supporters of science-based policy descended upon the U.S. Capitol Saturday for the D.C.…

Undergraduate Student in the Kashatus Lab receives Rotary Fellowship to continue her research at Cambridge!

Ashley Ferguson will study at the University of Cambridge’s Medical Research Council Cancer Unit with a Rotary Global Grant next year. "Ferguson is researching how cancer cells survive nutritional deprivation…

Kathy Michels’ research on TV this morning!

Kathy Michels, graduate student in the Borna Mehrad Laboratory speakes about how the reseach in her lab could help patients beat deadly pneumonia. For a more detailed report please see …