his just in: The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of focused ultrasound for tremor associated with Parkinson's disease. This follows clinical trials led by our Jeff Elias, MD.
Anindya Dutta and his colleagues have identified a substance that is essential for the sexually transmitted virus to cause cancer. That discovery could lead to new treatments for HPV cancers.
Our Children’s Hospital has been named a Certified Duchenne Care Center by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, a nonproft organization working to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We're the first Certified Duchenne Care Center in Virginia and the 22nd in the country.
For the seventh consecutive year, the School of Medicine has received a national award recognizing its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Tim and Shayna Showalter, who are married, have developed a technique called Precision Breast Intraoperative Radiation, which aims to improve on conventional breast IORT by making it more targeted, more powerful, more personalized and, hopefully, more effective.
Congratulations to Douglas DeSimone, PhD, chairman of our Department of Cell Biology; Wladek Minor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics; and Lukas Tamm, PhD, chairman of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, on their election to the rank of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.