A Commitment to Immunology
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Four CIC Trainees Receive NIH F31 Awards
Four CIC-affiliated graduate students recently received NIH F31 awards. These competitive awards recognize exceptional research and a student’s potential to become a leader in their field. Each award below will fund several years of pre-doctoral research for the recipient and … Read More
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Zegarra-Ruiz Lab Receives Awards to Further Study Lupus
The CIC’s Zegarra-Ruiz Lab received two recent grant awards, one from the Lupus Foundation of America and the other from the Lupus Research Alliance. Lead by Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz, PhD, the lab specializes in understanding how diet and the gut microbiome … Read More
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Chaofan Li, PhD, Wins NIH R01 to Study Lung Immune Cells
Chaofan Li, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, recently received an R01 award for his project “Molecular Mechanisms of Protective Lung Resident Memory T Cells.” The award provides over $700,000 in … Read More
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Justin Taylor, PhD, Named 2026 UVA Pinn Scholar
Justin Taylor, PhD, Resident Member of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and Associate Professor of Medicine, was recently named a 2026 Pinn Scholar. The Pinn Scholarship is one of the highest recognitions that research faculty in the … Read More
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National Postdoc Appreciation Week Programming
Looking ahead to National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we encourage our postdocs to check out the University’s programming, described below.
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Cara Hatzinger from Rutkowski Lab Receives an F31 Grant to Study the role of TLR5 signaling as a modulator of FLT3 ligand therapeutic efficacy for ovarian cancer
Cara Hatzinger from Rutkowski Lab just received an F31, Investigating the role of TLR5 signaling as a modulator of FLT3 ligand therapeutic efficacy for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the most fatal gynecological malignancy with most patients … Read More
Haroldo Rodriguez
Title: Dissecting B and T cell responses targeting a tumor-driving oncoprotein
