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Posts by Amy-Sarah Marshall

February 1, 2011 UVA Researcher Daniel Gioeli, Ph.D., Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Study Role of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer

Scientists have long understood that male hormones, androgens and the androgen receptor, play key roles in the development of the…

February 1, 2011 UVA Center for Global Health to Host Fogarty International Center Director Roger Glass, M.D., Ph.D., at Annual Symposium on November 7

Roger Glass, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fogarty International Center, will speak at Noon on Friday, November 7, in the…

February 1, 2011 An Anti-Frailty Pill for Seniors?

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System report that a daily single oral dose of an investigational drug, MK-677,…

February 1, 2011 University of Virginia Health System Receives Stroke Care Excellence Award

The University of Virginia Health System has received a 2009 Stroke Care Excellence Award from HealthGrades, a provider of independent…

February 1, 2011 Mark D. Okusa, M.D., named chief of Division of Nephrology

Robert M. Strieter, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has announced…

February 1, 2011 Four melanoma experts secure $1.25 million in internationally competitive research awards

The UVA Cancer Center is further strengthening its melanoma research program with the help of four separate investigator awards totaling…

February 1, 2011 Thanks to careful post-transplant case management, liver recipient is now proud mother of two

Julieanne Carter of Lynchburg, VA has a special place in her heart for the University of Virginia Health System and…

February 1, 2011 Cancer researcher first in nation to receive premiere research grant from Bone and Cancer Foundation

Pierrick G. Fournier, Ph.D., a research instructor at the University of Virginia Health System, is the first recipient of the…

February 1, 2011 UVA program awards $10 million to university investigators to study diseases associated with smoking

Nine researchers at the University of Virginia have been awarded a total of $10 million over three years from the…

February 1, 2011 Stuart S. Berr, PhD, awarded $2 million grant from the NIH for the cyclotron to expand imaging research

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, led by University of Virginia Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineer Stuart S. Berr, Ph.D.,…