Researchers from the Carter Immunology Center had a great turnout at the 2025 AAI annual meeting. This year’s AAI Meeting took place in Honolulu, Hawaii. ~26 CIC researchers enjoyed the opportunity to engage with the larger immunology community; to both … Read More
Rossymar “Ross” Rivera Colón, a PhD student mentored by Kristin Anderson, PhD, won the third place and audience choice prizes at this year’s UVA Grad Thesis Slam. The event, put on by the university’s PhD+ program, challenges graduate students to … Read More
Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology and Resident Member of the Carter Immunology Center, received a $600,000 Empowering Lupus Research Program grant award from the Lupus Research Alliance. Autoimmune diseases like lupus affect over 200 … Read More
See link for full details: https://www.immunology.virginia.edu/event/the-annual-meeting-of-the-aai-located-in-honolulu-hawaii/ 2025 AAI Meeting Website: https://immunology2025.aai.org/ Look for these CIC members at the 2025 AAI meeting presenting their research.
Two undergraduate students mentored by Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz, PhD, Iana Niknezhad and Aditi Shanbhag, received funding for summer research this week. Zegarra-Ruiz is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology and Resident Member of the CIC. His team studies … Read More
Malcolm O’Malley, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering advised by Jeffrey Saucerman, PhD, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is a member of the CIC’s Immunology Training Program, having … Read More
Melanie Rutkowski, PhD, recently was voted to become a Resident Member of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research. Her team will take over the research space vacated by former CIC director Vic Engelhard, PhD, after his retirement. Rutkowski, … Read More
Natasha Sheybani, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, was recently voted to become a member of the CIC. As research director of the Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center, she specializes in using Focused Ultrasound … Read More
Dr. Christine Nelson, PhD, recently joined the CIC membership. Nelson’s research focuses on understanding the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). Originally from Minnesota, she pursued her graduate studies in immunology with a focus on cancer and autoimmunity before transitioning … Read More
Chaofan Li, PhD, a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Jie Sun, PhD, recently received a $40,000 Unrestricted Grant award from the American Thoracic Society to study Long COVID. The project, titled “Molecular regulation of respiratory immune response driving … Read More
