Joshua Barney

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Deputy Public Information Officer

Josh primarily covers research and the School of Medicine. He previously worked at The Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville, Va., first as a reporter and then as an editor. He is a graduate of UVA.

Email | jdb9a@virginia.edu

Phone | 434.906.8864

Coverage Areas | Medical research, UVA School of Medicine

Posts by Joshua Barney

May 20, 2019 Successful HIV Effort Prompts Call for Clinics to Expand Mental Health Services on Site

Increasing access to mental health services improved HIV outcomes among vulnerable patients, UVA found.

Team members of the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia.

May 8, 2019 iTHRIV Seeks Partners to Improve Public Health, Address Disparities Across Virginia

The Integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), which aims to improve the health of people across the state…

Edward H. Egelman poses in a brightly lit stairwell.

May 2, 2019 Edward H. Egelman Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Sciences

Egelman has attracted national and international headlines for discoveries such as how urinary tract infections take hold and how an almost indestructible virus survives and thrives in nearly boiling acid.

Untreated blood vessel sprouts (left), compared with blood vessel sprouts following treatment with microRNA.

April 30, 2019 Here’s How Cancer Hijacks Wound Healing to Create Its Own Blood Supply

Researchers at the School of Medicine have shed light on how cancers hijack the body’s natural wound-healing response to grow…

April 23, 2019 Soft Bedding Poses Grave Danger to Sleeping Babies, Study Shows

Almost 70% of babies who died from sleep-related suffocation between 2011 and 2014 did so because of soft bedding, a…

Researchers Mahmoud Saleh (left) and William A. Petri Jr. have shed light on why C. difficile infections are so dangerous.

April 22, 2019 Revealed: The Secret Superpower That Makes C. Difficile So Deadly

A new discovery about dangerous C. difficile diarrhea has identified a new way that the bacteria – and possibly others…

An atomic model for the microbial nanowires that conduct electricity is in the foreground, while two bacteria are seen in the electron micrograph in the background, surrounded by the nanowires.

April 15, 2019 Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Yield Secret to Tiny Batteries, Big Medical Advances

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that live in soil and sediment can conduct electricity. The…

Francine Garrett-Bakelman, MD, PhD, is a cancer doctor and researcher at UVA. She worked with NASA on the twins study.

April 11, 2019 Over the Moon: A UVA Doctor Reflects on Her Work With NASA

On March 3, 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly came home from a yearlong stay on the International Space Station, and…

Second-year graduate student Mateusz Czub and undergraduate chemistry student Barat Venkataramany analyze a testosterone binding site and discuss the possible medical implications of their finding with Wladek Minor, PhD.

March 27, 2019 Testosterone Discovery May Explain Low Levels in Men With Diabetes

Scientists have mapped out how the body transports testosterone, and their surprising findings may explain low testosterone levels seen in…

Researchers Gary K. Owens and Molly R. Kelly-Goss work in the lab to understand angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels.

March 12, 2019 Found: The Missing Ingredient to Grow Blood Vessels

Researchers have discovered an ingredient vital for proper blood vessel formation that explains why numerous promising treatments have failed.