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
The Happy Hour was a success to celebrate our wonderful research and academic MIC/CIC community, and welcome new faculty and trainees who joined our labs in 2021 and 2022. Thanks for attending! Here are some Photos from the event:
Karolina Dziewulska awarded the AABB Outstanding Abstract Award for Trainees in the Medical/Graduate Student category for the abstract Resistance to Drug-Induced Hemolysis and Higher Enzymatic Activity in Young Vs. Older RBCs in a Novel Humanized Mouse Model of G6PD Deficiency. … Read More
Arijita Jash in Zimring Lab won the Top Poster Award at AABB in 2021 for her abstract Mechanism of Anti-RBC IgG Regulating Immunogenicity of Transfused RBCs. Congratulations!!
Your Brain Parasite Isn’t Making You Sick. Here’s Why. The UVA researchers found that the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, is kept in check by brain defenders called microglia. These microglia release a unique immune molecule, IL-1a, that recruits immune cells from the blood to … Read More
Q&A: Dr. William Petri on COVID-19, Vaccines and the Pandemic Dr. William Petri, a chaired professor of infectious diseases and international health at UVA and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine, is studying the effects of the … Read More
