News articles from UVA Today.
University Awards Rapid Response Research Grants to Combat COVID-19
The University research community is putting the novel coronavirus and its effects under the microscope.
COVID and the Commonwealth: iTHRIV's New Health Status Registry Seeks Your Input
The online registry is an open to all Virginia residents, healthy or sick, and seeks to provide a fuller picture of COVID-19 in the commonwealth.
Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Previously Impossible Treatments
New approaches under study at UVA could revolutionize treatment for conditions from Alzheimer's to epilepsy to brain tumors – and even help repair the devastating damage caused by stroke.
Influential Researchers in Environmental Sciences, Psychology Earn Prestigious Honor
Jim Galloway and Timothy Wilson last week became the fourth and fifth UVA faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences for their pathbreaking research.
Researchers Probing Links Between the Pandemic and the Environment
The University's institute, dedicated to the environment, continues to work through the pandemic.
UVA Health Trial to Test Convalescent Plasma as Potential COVID-19 Treatment
People who have recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies that may confer immunity. Sharing them may be helpful to those who are still battling the disease.
Drug Tested at UVA Cleared as First COVID-19 Treatment
The FDA issued emergency-use authorization allowing the use of remdesivir, an antiviral drug tested at UVA Health.
Manning Family Makes $1 Million Commitment to Advance COVID-19 Research at UVA
The new fund will serve as a catalyst for vital research focused on COVID-19 testing, therapies, vaccines and even strategies to safely reopen society.
NIH: Antiviral Drug Tested at UVA Speeds COVID-19 Recovery
Remdesivir, an antiviral drug tested against COVID-19 at UVA Health and other sites, appeared to improve survival rates and speed recovery times.
Spinal Cord Injuries: UVA Scientists Probe Individual Cells to Find Better Treatments
Two of the School of Medicine's leading researchers are teaming to take on something that neither may have attempted on their own: the riddle of spinal cord injuries.