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Congratulations to Dr. Maria Luisa Sequeira-Lopez and colleagues for receiving a 2021 Circulation Research Best Manuscript Award for your article “Renin Cell Baroreceptor, a Nuclear Mechanotransducer Central for Homeostasis” published in May 2021.

CHRC scientist, Dr. Maria Luisa Sequeira-Lopez and team publish article. Citation: Watanabe, H., Belyea, B. C., Paxton, R. L., Li, M., Dzamba, B. J., DeSimone, D. W., Gomez, R. A., & Sequeira-Lopez, M. L. (2021). Renin cell baroreceptor, a nuclear …

CHRC pediatric nephrologist, Jennifer Charlton, MD and colleagues publish article. Citation: Darya Morozov, Neda Parvin, Mark Conaway, Gavin Oxley, Edwin Baldelomar, Aleksandra Cwiek, Kimberly deRonde, Scott Beeman, Jennifer Charlton and Kevin Bennett …

CHRC researcher Marc D. DeBoer, MD and colleagues publish article. Citation: DeBoer, M. D., Platts-Mills, J. A., Elwood, S. E., Scharf, R. J., McDermid, J. M., Wanjuhi, A. W., Jatosh, S., Katengu, S., Parpia, T. C., Rogawski McQuade, E. T., Gratz, J., …

CHRC researcher Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD and colleagues publish article. Citation: Maeda, D. L., Tian, D., Yu, H., Dar, N., Rajasekaran, V., Meng, S., Mahsoub, H., Sooryanarain, H., Wang, B., Heffron, C. L., Hassebroek, A., LeRoith, T., Meng, X.-J., …

CHRC researcher Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD and colleagues publish article. Citation: Yu, H., Khokhlatchev, A. V., Chew, C., Illendula, A., Conaway, M., Dryden, K., Maeda, D. L., Rajasekaran, V., Kester, M., & Zeichner, S. L. (2021). Minicells from …

UVA Health’s Dr. Steven L. Zeichner and his colleague at Virginia Tech, Dr. Xiang-Jin Meng are developing a vaccine that could help contain both current and future variants of the COVID-19 virus – including the Delta variant currently plaguing the Unit …

Child Health Research Center CHRC Grant Review Sessions   Dear Faculty, Students, and Postdocs, We hope you and your family are all doing well and stay safe. This is to let you know that we will soon re-start our Grant Review Sessions on Fridays at noo …

Child Health Research Center A Lecture to Honor the Contributions of Dr. Peter Heymann to the Understanding of Childhood Asthma “Rhinovirus-induced Dysmaturation of the Airway Epithelium Stimulates Type II Inflammatory Signatures in Preschool Children …

Omar Guessoum1, Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez2, Ariel Gomez1,2 1 Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, University of Virginia School of Medicine. Mentors: Ariel Gomez …

Sana Syed, MD, MS It gives us great pleasure to announce that Dr. Syed received her K23 NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (starting fall 2019) focused on computational image analysis and ‘omics approaches to study gut stru …

©2018. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd I Disease Models & Mechanisms (2018) 11. dmm038463. doi:10.1242/dmm.038463 First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Me …

Children’s Health Research Center Presents the 31st Annual Research Symposium Thursday, May 30th Call for Abstracts: ABSTRACT DUE DATE – Friday, April 12, 2019 The Research Trainee Competition features Platform Presentations by Residents, Medical Fello …

CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER  PRESENTS The Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture     Klaus Rajewsky, M.D. Professor & Senior Group Leader Immune Regulation & Cancer, Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin­Buch, Germany   “Targ …

Let’s congratulate our recent Maddy Deal recipients for 2018 Dr. Rebecca Scharf for “Novel Systems to Assess Treatment Efficacy in Childhood Neuromuscular Disease.” The goal of this research is to find a novel, multi-model paradigm of measuring motor f …

The PCEN in conjunction with the CHRC sponsored and organized the 30th Annual Research Day Symposium that took place at UVA on May 31th 2018. This symposium offered an outstanding presentation of Pediatrics’ trainees and faculty mentors’ research. Dr. …

Dr. Sana Syed Congratulations to Dr. Sana Syed one of our own at the Child Health Research Center. She has been selected to be part of the THRIV Scholar Career Development Program.  Every year the Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (TH …

<►> Our 29th Annual Research Symposium took place on Thursday, May 27, 2017. The research day offers an excellent opportunity for faculty and staff of the CHRC to present the ground-breaking research that they undertake. Following the poste …

CHRC director, Dr. R. Ariel Gomez was recently awarded the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement by the University of Iowa Carver College Medical Alumni Association. The award was established in 1998 as the highest honor bestowed upon graduates of the institution. The Alumni Award for Achievement in particular is given to a deserving candidate who exhibits “significant professional accomplishments in science, medicine and/or education”.

The University of Virginia was honored to have Johannes Carolus (Hans) Clevers, a professor in molecular genetics, a geneticist, physician, and medical researcher, present the second annual Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture, on April 27, 2017. His lecture attracted many and was very well attended, as the entire Medical Education Building Auditorium was full. In addition, a live airing was available to attendees, on screen in a separate area.

Drs. Maria Luisa Sequeira-Lopez, Yan Hu and Brian Belyea were recently featured in a UVA Today article

Rhian Touyz, MD, PhD interviews Ariel Gomez, MD, corecipient of the 2016 Excellence in Hypertension Award about his research into the fate of renin cells during development and disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2kOpXw2a2s  

Dr. Ariel Gomez’s research was recently featured in a UVA Today article.

Congratulations to Masafumi Oka, MD and Vidya Kusma Harinathan, PhD, who were both selected to receive the Kidney Council New Investigator Travel Award. This award will be presented to them at the Annual Business Meeting/Awards luncheon of the 2016 Cou …

<►> Our 28th Annual Research Day Symposium offered an outstanding presentation of the scholarly assembly of Pediatrics’ trainees and faculty mentors’ research. The day commenced with an excellent presentation by our keynote speaker, Alessio …

Congratulations to our Winners! 2016 Kendig Award Winner  The 2016 Kendig Award goes to Matthew Harer. Research Trainee Competition Winners Maria Florencia Martinez |  Super-Enhancers in the renin cell Erika Rhone | Genomic-derived markers to identify …

Jennifer Charlton, MD Jennifer Charlton, MD recently recieved the Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant from the American Society of Nephrology. The purpose of the Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant is to provide funding for young faculty to …

Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, a Nobel Laureate whose work can be applied either directly or indirectly to nearly every medical field of research, spoke at the University Tuesday. Capecchi, with Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies, received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on the use of embryonic stem cells to introduce gene modifications in mice. His lecture filled the entire auditorium — leaving every chair filled, the stairs stacked on both sides, and the back of the room lined.

Congratulations to Dr. Belyea who was recently selected by the The American Society for Clinical Investigation for the Young Physician-Scientist Award of 2016. The ASCI Council Young Physician-Scientist Awards, initiated in 2013, recognize young physic …

Jennifer Charlton, MD was recently awarded the Outstanding Investigator Award at the NIH K Award Symposium for her work, “Chronic Kidney Disease: Early Diagnosis by Contrast-Enhanced MRI”. The Department of Medicine’s K-awardee mentoring program, launc …

Congrats to Dr. Maria Luisa Sequeira Lopez for her elected position as the next vice chair and subsequently the new Chair of the Angiotensin Gordon Research Conference  

Project name Role of kainate receptors on modulation of synaptic transmission and seizure susceptibility to hypoxia in neonatal mice Gap funding award $50,000. Time frame One year Q: Please describe your project. Seizures in neonates are a vexing clini …

Congratulations to the winners of the Innovative Grants! The titles of the grants were “Adhesins of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, a health burden in cystic fibrosis patients” (Jorge Giron) and “Influence of detergent skin cleanser use on Development of …

UVA Today recently featured an article about some of our CHRC research staff. In a significant step toward growing replacement kidneys, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified the cells that give rise to the blood v …

PULSE – Philanthropy in Action, a newsletter focusing on new programs, gifts, volunteers, needs, and other timely issues at the UVA Health System, ran a story in it’s most recent bi-annual publication featuring the Child Health Research Center. The sto …

R. Ariel Gomez, MD On November 11, 2015 Dr. Ariel Gomez, along with Dr. Anindya Dutta, Dr. Doug Bayliss, and Dr. Jack Stankovic,  was honored with the University of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award during an award dinner held at The Colonade Club …

General Information: The Child Health Research Center is searching to fund innovative, paradigm shifting, and/or technology advancing projects through an Innovative Science and Excellence in Pediatric Research Grant.  Funding will support projects in b …

Please join us to congratulate Vidya Kusma Harinathan, PhD, Instructor of Research, Pediatrics! She is the winner of the 2015 Maddy Deal Pilot Project Grant entitled “Membrane Immunoassay for Detecting Single cell Renin Secretion.” Please congratulate …

Please join us to congratulate our graduate students who won basic research awards at the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Young Investigators Fo
rum, held at the Renaissance Hotel in Baltimore, MD. This event allows trainees from Mid-Atlantic research programs to pr …