
UVA Health expanding food allergy research, clinical trials
UVA Health and UVA Children’s Hospital are increasing access to the latest food allergy clinical trials and expanding their cutting-edge food-allergy research.

UVA Health and UVA Children’s Hospital are increasing access to the latest food allergy clinical trials and expanding their cutting-edge food-allergy research.

Obesity affects more than 40 percent of adults in the United States and 13 percent of the global population.

Researchers at Virginia State University’s Agricultural Research Station were recently awarded $1.4 million in capacity building grants from the USDA.

George Vidal, an assistant professor of biology at James Madison University, has received $1 million from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to research the function of an autism risk gene in the developing brain.

While this spring’s Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference may have been “only” virtual, the impact it has had on students is quite real.

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What we eat can affect the outcome of chemotherapy – and likely many other medical treatments – because of ripple effects that begin in our gut, new research from the University of Virginia suggests.

Biomedical scientists working with COVID-19 have a new tool to help them better understand the virus and feel confident about the structural models they are using in their research.

Most people know cornstarch can be used for cooking, as a stain remover and as a deodorizer. Now they can add insect repellant to cornstarch’s expansive list of applications.

Cancer research and treatment for the region’s pets and people got a boost when a new computed tomography scanner was delivered to the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke.