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
In Victory Against Polio, Hope for the Battle Against COVID-19 For much of the 20th century, summer was “polio season,” and people were accustomed to seeing swimming pools and movie theaters closed to stave off the latest epidemic. Shaking hands … Read More
COVID-19: UVA Discovery Spurs Clinical Trial of Antidepressant to Fight Virus An antidepressant medication is being tested as a potential treatment for COVID-19 after University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers determined it may prevent dangerous overreactions by the immune system. … Read More
In May, Tiffany Terry successfully defended her thesis, “The role of IGF1 signaling in the development of cerebellar granule cells.” Her work in Hui Zong’s lab focused on determining whether IGF1 signaling was necessary for the development of normal granule … Read More
