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UVA IDs Genes Responsible for Coronary Artery Disease
The smooth muscle cells lining our arteries can serve as the foundation for the fatty plaques in coronary artery disease. UVA Professor Mete Civelek's team has identified the genes that are responsible for this risk at these locations.
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What Is Biotechnology? Where Is It Headed at UVA?
VA Today spoke to Dr. Richard Price, a biomedical engineer, about the definition of biotechnology and the role it plays at UVA Health.
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Gut Bacteria Can Make C. Diff Infections Worse
Understanding the interactions between C. difficile and the human gut offers new opportunities for heading off potentially fatal infections.
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New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental Design
Biology is Now a Data Science
When Remziye Erdogan learned last spring about the new Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program designed to immerse graduate students in the techniques of systems...
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UVA Creates Shining ‘KSTAR’ to Guide Cancer Treatments
Kinase inhibitors are the most common cancer drugs approved by the FDA. They can be hugely effective, but they don’t work for everyone. UVA’s new algorithm offers a new and better way to pinpoint patients who will benefit – an important step forward in precision medicine tailored to the individual...
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UVA Discovery Could Ease Jet Lag, Improve Chemotherapy, Among Other Benefits
Miniature “guts in a dish” and advanced computer modeling to reveal how microscopic organisms that naturally live in our guts direct the timing of daily activities of the cells lining our intestines.
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UVA Health Awarded $15 Million to Better Understand Artery Hardening
The Leducq Foundation, which is dedicated to battling cardiovascular disease and stroke, has funded four projects worldwide for 2022. Two of those involve researchers here at UVA.
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UVA's Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award
Pioneers in Cancer Systems Biology will Establish a Center to Look Deep Inside Cells at the “Little Organs” of Cancer
New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.
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Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shayn Peirce-Cottler’s Work Contributes to Improved Injury Healing and Disease Treatments
Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease.
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A UVA Post-Doc Wants to Teach the Immune System How to Regenerate Tissue
First, He Needs to Catalog All the Fibroblasts
Biomedical engineering post-doctoral fellow Dan Abebayehu plans to tackle fibrosis by identifying different types of fibroblasts and determining how they work with immune cells.