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Jeffrey Teoh has won the GBS Student Leadership Award
We congratulate Jeff Teoh who has won the GBS Student Leadership Award!
Emily Billings has won the 2016 Jill E. Hungerford Award
Emily Billings has won the 2016 Jill E. Hungerford Award as the Outstanding Graduate Student from the GBS. Congratulations!
David Kashatus, PhD has received an R01 grant titled “Exploring the role of mitochondrial fission in pancreatic tumorigenesis”. The grant will be funded by the National Cancer Institute from 07/01/2016…
Immune Cells, Weight Control, Disease Resistance linked by DNA
The Mike Brown Laboratory in the Department of Medicine (Nephrology) at the Carter Immunology Center studies the role of genes in the immune system and has shown that many genes…
Salmonella adapts to different niches within the host as the disease progresses
The Melissa Kendall Laboratory's research on salmonella and its sensing of ethanolamine was published recently in PLoS Pathogens. Salmonella uses ethanolamine as a GPS to determine its location in the…
Gioeli Lab discovery could lead to advancement of prostate cancer treatment
"The researchers determined that a cellular signaling pathway that is activated in response to radiation – to halt cell division and allow repair of damage to DNA – also controls…
Undergraduate student in the Zong Lab wins poster contest
Congratulations to Alyssa Kelder for winning the best poster award in the 2015 Undergraduate Research Session held by the Department of Biology, UVa. Alyssa was mentored by Philippe Gonzalez, MIC…
Welcome to Melanie Rutkowski, PhD
We would like to welcome our newest member to the department! Melanie Rutkowski, PhD has an appointment with the UVA Cancer Center, is a full member of the Carter Immunology…
"Scientific discoveries are often the product of painstaking research over years, but once in a while laboratories get lucky. Such was the case at the University of Virginia’s Immunology Center,…
Fond, Chang Sup Lee, Ravichandran and colleagues have now discovered the components of the molecular machinery by which dying cells boost ABCA1 in phagocytes. They discovered that when the phagocytic…
