The link between tumor-specific B cells and cancer outcomes remains poorly defined. The authors show that tumor-associated B cells specific for viral oncoproteins expressed in MCC predict disease…

Anny Zhou, PhD, Drash Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Department of Genome Science and Director of UVA’s Translational Genomic Center…

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CIC resident member Melanie Rutkowski, PhD, was awarded the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Rising Innovator Grant. The award, in partnership with Pelotonia and the American …

Michael Brown, PhD, resident member of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research (CIC) and Professor of Medicine in the Nephrology Division, received an R01 grant award from the NIH excee…

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Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer usually caused by Merkel cell polyomavirus. The virus, which most people carry, is typically harmless. In 2,500 Americans each year, …

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-term health concerns of viral pneumonia, yet its potential impact on cancer development and growth remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that prior...

Megan Mazzei, a 2nd-year graduate student mentored by Coleen McNamara, MD, won a Poster Award at the 2025 Atherosclerosis Gordon Research Conference in Barcelona, Spain on June 27, 2025. Her presen…

Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine Jie Sun, PhD, in the UVA Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Inte...

Kelsey Voss, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, was recently voted to join the CIC membership. Voss, who came to UVA from a postdoctoral position at Vanderbilt, is an expert in the immune sy…

Melanie Rutkowski, PhD, recently was voted to become a Resident Member of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research. Her team will take over the research space vacated by former CIC direc…

Chaofan Li, PhD, a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Jie Sun, PhD, recently received a $40,000 Unrestricted Grant award from the American Thoracic Society to study Long COVID. The project,…

Three teams of CIC researchers recently received pilot funding from the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center (UVA CCC). CIC Resident Members Justin Taylor, PhD, and Kristin Anderson, PhD, received fundi…

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells’ ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID. The...

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Gut bacteria are to blame for the failure of immune checkpoint therapy for ovarian cancer, new UVA Health research reveals.