Scientists at the School of Medicine have identified a potential way to head off heart attacks and strokes by strengthening the fibrous caps overlying atherosclerotic plaques that naturally accumulate inside our arteries. These fatty lesions can rupture, triggering blood clots … Read More
New research out of the University of Virginia suggests that exercise during pregnancy may significantly reduce expectant mothers` children`s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life. Zhen Yan said this research was inspired by the vast … Read More
Dr. Zhen Yan and his colleagues have a new paper for the Journal of Applied Physiology, “Exercise during pregnancy mitigates negative effects of parental obesity on metabolic function in adult mouse offspring.” Obesity during pregnancy increases the risk that the … Read More
Wolf lab has a new article published in Circulation Research titled, Loss of Endogenously Cycling Adult Cardiomyocytes Worsens Myocardial Function. Congratulations on the new publication! Click here to read the full article at https://www.ahajournals.org
Dr. Matthew Wolf was named a 2020 Paul Dudley White International Scholar for having the highest rated U.S. abstract for the 2020 AHA Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions. The abstract title is: A Transgenic Approach Using Dual Orthologous DNA Recombinases … Read More
Tess Gibson, a senior undergraduate in the Wolf lab, was awarded first place at the 36th Annual Richard D. Katz Undergraduate Research Symposium at UVA for her research project, Developing a Novel Cell Cycle Reporter for Transcriptomics. Congratulations!
A review by Zhen Yan of the University of Virginia School of Medicine showed that medical research findings strongly support the possibility that exercise can prevent or at least reduce the severity of ARDS, which affects between 3% and 17% … Read More
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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered why obesity causes high blood pressure and identified potential ways of treating that form of high blood pressure. Sonkusare and colleagues found that a protein on the membranes surrounding … Read More
The winners of UVA’s inaugural Research Achievement Awards pose with President Jim Ryan, Provost Liz Magill and Vice President for Research Melur Ramasubramanian. (Photo by Amanda Maglione) The University of Virginia’s top leaders gathered Wednesday evening at the Boar’s Head … Read More
