28th Annual Research Symposium
5/19/2016
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…
Congratulations to the 2016 Research Trainee Competition Winners!
5/11/2016
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…
Jennifer Charlton, MD Recieves ASN Research Grant
4/22/2016
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…
2016 Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture | Mario Capecchi, PhD
4/8/2016
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.
Brian C. Belyea, MD | 2016 Young Physician-Scientist Award Winner
3/21/2016
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,…
NIH K Award Symposium Outstanding Investigator Award | Jennifer Charlton, MD
3/21/2016
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…
Congratulations, Dr. Maria Luisa Sequeria Lopez!
3/21/2016
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
Gap Funding Award | An Interview with Santina A. Zanelli, MD
3/17/2016
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…
Congrats, Jorge Giron and Julia Wisniewski!
1/26/2016
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…
UVA Discovery a Major Step Toward Growing Kidneys
12/17/2015
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…
