Microbiology Prof. Victor Engelhard, who is co-director for the immunotherapy department at the University Cancer Center, conducts research on T-cell-mediated immunity to cancer, in the hopes of eventually developing a vaccine for patients already battling the disease.
The University was recently named a HEARTSafe Campus by the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation due to its strong commitment to public awareness as well as its extensive Automated External Defibrillator program.
In last Thursday’s “Rediscovering Pluto” panel, Alice Bowman, the Mission Operation Manager (MOM), and Anne Verbiscer, a University planetary geologist and associate research professor of astronomy, discussed the revolutionary New Horizons Mission to Pluto.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the University, along with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), and a number of other medical schools and accountable care organizations (ACOs) hosted the second annual Population Health Summit for Virginia.
The fact that opioids are so prevalent in healthcare makes them particularly important to study and control.
This Friday, medical students at the University, and around the country, celebrated Match Day — the day they find out to which residency programs they’ve been accepted.
As spring draws near, various groups around Grounds begin hosting “darties” — outdoor, day long parties.
Last week, a School of Medicine research team announced that doctors may be able to predict a patient’s risk of having a second (recurrent) ischemic stroke using a simple blood test.
Ischemic stroke can occur when an artery that normally brings fresh blood from the heart and lungs to the brain is blocked.
This semester, a new class called Neuroscience Research for Non-Majors is being offered. Biology professor George Bloom is the program director for this course and is intended for students conducting research in neuroscience who are not neuroscience majors.
HIV/AIDS student activists from across the nation gathered together at the University Feb. 26 to 28 for the 2016 Student Global AIDS Campaign Conference.
“Nutrition and Diabetes,” a recent long-term study published in Nature journal, has found the Paleo Diet may be doing more harm than good.
Rearing their heads in a variety of forms, eating disorders do not discriminate — affecting individuals regardless of their social class, economic status, gender, race or age.
On Friday, Yap Boum II, PhD, gave a talk about his experience with Ebola vaccine trials as part of the Center for Global Health’s Infectious Disease and Biodefense series.
Studying impoverished children in Bangladesh, Dr. Jeff Donowitz, infectious disease specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University and infectious disease fellow at the Medical School, was the head researcher of a two-year-long study that found the overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine likely causes a stunt in growth, cognitive delays and possibly the failure of several oral vaccines.
On Jan. 29, the National Cancer Institute released guidelines on how to best allocate scarce chemotherapy drugs for childhood cancer patients.
A recent University discovery shows Salmonella enterica identifies its location within the body using a substance called ethanolamine, a cell membrane component that provides nutrition to the foodborne pathogen.
In the seminal 1989 film, “When Harry Met Sally,” Sally (Meg Ryan) shows an incredulous Harry (Billy Crystal) how women fake orgasms after he claims that he’s left every woman he’s ever been with satisfied.
J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), spoke at the Batten School Feb. 8 on the convergence of global security and public health issues in the Middle East and Africa.
The World Health Organization, or WHO, declared Zika a global health emergency. According to Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine and infectious diseases and international health, this is a prudent attempt by WHO to catch the spread of the virus early.
