Scientists from the lab of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Prof. Edward H. Egelman, Ph.D., have found a novel interaction between the protein capsule and DNA of the SIRV2 virus that allows the virus to survive when moving from cell to cell within populations of Sulfolobus islandicus, a bacterial species that live in conditions such as boiling acid.
The University Health System is currently seeking to form a partnership with Novant Health, a nonprofit healthcare provider which operates community hospitals, clinics and facilities in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
MD/PhD student Sachin Gadani, from the Kipnis Lab, recently discovered a protein, Interleukin-33 (IL-33), found to be significant in the central nervous system’s response to injury.
Dr. Peter Hallowell, director of bariatric surgery at the University Health System, is the lead author of a study which recently concluded that long term outcomes for obese patients who undergo gastric bypass are better than outcomes for similar patients who do not.
Mental health is on the forefront of dialogue at the University — following a tumultuous semester punctuated by three student suicides.
Computer science prof. Mary Lou Stoffa has been recognized with the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) Influential Educator Award for “a sustained record of mentoring of women at all ranks in the field of computing, especially software engineering,” according to the SIGSOFT website.
The Computer Science Department is currently working towards being able to offer the BA in Computer Science degree program to more students. The major can currently accommodate 85 people according to Kevin Skadron, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science. With the increasing popularity, however, the department is looking to expand the major.
Thinking about the future impacts of rising sea levels can conjure images of submerged streets in Manhattan, as the land barriers no longer contain the Atlantic. While not nearly this catastrophic, the rising sea levels predicted by current data could still prove very detrimental over the next 100 years. Dr. Karen McGlathery of the University’s Marine Ecology Lab leads a particular investigation of the impacts of rising sea levels on coastal wetlands in Virginia.
The Medical Center’s Office of Telemedicine recently added nine new partner health facilities, including two located within the University, to its practice. The expansion comes courtesy of a $253,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to a Health System press release.
Now a member of the National Marrow Donor Program, the Health System will have access to the Be The Match Registry, the world’s largest and most diverse bone marrow registry. The expansion offers Health System patients with blood cancers like leukemia improved access to life-saving treatments.
