The Cowardin laboratory, located within the Child Health Research Center at the University of Virginia, focuses on understanding how the gut microbiota during pregnancy and early postnatal life set the stage for lifelong immune responses. Undernutrition and linear growth stunting … Read More
CIC Investigators partnered with colleagues from the La Jolla Institute (LJI) to utilize single cell multi-omic analysis of human circulating immune cells to identify the B cell subtype in humans that is associated with IgE sensitization to alpha gal and … Read More
The research project seeks to understand the effects of IgE to alpha-gal on atherosclerotic plaque development and define immune mechanisms mediating IgE sensitization to alpha-gal linked to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in mice and humans. Dr. Loren Erickson, Associate Professor in … Read More
Long COVID-19 and other chronic respiratory conditions after viral infections may stem from an overactive immune response in the lungs Viruses that cause respiratory diseases like the flu and COVID-19 can lead to mild to severe symptoms within the first few … Read More
The Gilliam Fellowship grant, which is awarded to the student-adviser pair, signals two important things. One, Nadia Holness will be a leader in science committed to advancing diversity and inclusion. And two, Sarah Ewald and University of Virginia School of … Read More
Those widely available COVID-19 vaccinations keeping the majority of the population free from serious illness will not be enough to stop the spread of the virus and its variants, new University of Virginia collaborative research indicates. Just as science has … Read More
Dungeons & Dragons and Burgers: ‘Really Bad Outcomes’ When We Don’t Grasp Fractions In the 1980s there was a widespread conspiracy theory that young people who played the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons were prone to murder and suicide. The … Read More
UVA’s Prominence-to-Preeminence Fund recently awarded the Immunology, Imaging, and Informatics for Precision ImmunoMedicine (iPRIME) in Cardiovascular Disease project. In collaboration with the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Applied Science, Nursing, and Data Science, the goal of iPRIME is to designate … Read More
Dr. Mike Brown was awarded a Commonwealth Health Research Board grant! This award will study risky variants in human cardiovascular disease. Beirne Carter Center Faculty Receive Commonwealth Health Research Board Grant Award Mike Brown, Coleen McNamara, and Vineela Bontha recently received … Read More
The Luckey lab is focused on understanding the molecular controllers of immune responses induced upon transfusion of red blood cells (RBC). For patients who require chronic transfusions, the generation of antibodies to RBC antigens can be a major clinical problem. … Read More
