Ricky Baylis, an MD/PhD student who works in Gary Owens' lab here at UVA, received quite an honor when he was selected to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Vitals, the magazine of our Medical Alumni Association, asked him to write up an account of his time among the…
For Capt. Scott Tingle, reaching space at one point seemed impossible. He applied repeatedly, but he found himself in his 40s and assumed that his dream was not to be. But he never gave up.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved a new single-dose drug, baloxavir marboxil, that can shorten the duration of the flu. It's the first new drug of its type in 20 years. Our Frederick G. Hayden, MD, and his colleagues found that the drug, developed by pharma company Shinogi,…
The answer may surprise you. Check out this interesting article from BBC Future. Among the questions answered: Was 30 considered "old" in the Roman empire? What about 50? And how do we really know?
Our Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, has made a series of amazing discoveries, starting with his identification of vessels connecting the brain and the immune system that were not supposed to exist. Now his game-changing work has received a most prestigious recognition: The Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health.…
The fine folks over at UVA Today, the daily news site for the university, have picked a dozen of UVA's biggest scientific discoveries from the last 50 years, and the School of Medicine was responsible for seven of them. Great work, SOM! Check out the article here. (Pictured: The late…