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 6, 2015 Surprising contributor to Rett syndrome identified

The immune system is designed to protect us from disease. But what if it was malfunctioning? Would it make a…

April 29, 2015 Even an hour of TV a day ups risk of childhood obesity

Children who view television as little as an hour a day are significantly more likely to be overweight or obese…

April 8, 2015 Wearable device slows deadly brain tumors, clinical trial finds

A wearable device that emits low-level electrical fields can slow the progression of glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer,…

April 6, 2015 Common cancers highjack powerhouses of cells

In a breakthrough in the understanding of how cancer does its deadly work, researchers at the School of Medicine have…

March 25, 2015 Promising drug a ‘new paradigm’ for treating leukemia

Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have developed a compound that delays leukemia in mice and effectively kills leukemia…

March 23, 2015 Long-needed answers for prostate cancer patients

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer : Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of…

March 18, 2015 Potential treatment for myotonic muscular dystrophy identified

A doctor who was one of the discoverers of the gene responsible for myotonic muscular dystrophy has now identified a…

February 24, 2015 UVA prevents diabetic heart condition by amplifying effect of exercise

A researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has magnified a benefit of exercise in mice to provide…

February 6, 2015 UVA finds trigger for protective immune response to spinal cord injury

Hot on the heels of discovering a protective form of immune response to spinal cord injury , researchers at the…

February 3, 2015 UVA discovers key to cancer’s spread

In a breakthrough in the understanding of how cancer spreads, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have…