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🎓 Celebrate the class of 2025 – Live! Join us on Sunday, May 18 as we honor this year’s class during two special events: 🔬 Biomedical Sciences Graduation Ceremony 11:30 AM EST bit.ly/4meFABD 🩺 Doctors of Medicine Graduation Ceremony 3 PM EST bit.ly/4kqmuHe

🎓 Celebrate the class of 2025 – Live! Join us on Sunday, May 18 as we honor this year’s class during two special events:

🔬 Biomedical Sciences Graduation Ceremony
11:30 AM EST bit.ly/4meFABD

🩺 Doctors of Medicine Graduation Ceremony
3 PM EST bit.ly/4kqmuHe
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🔬 Meet Lu Le, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of dermatology, a leading researcher in cancer biology and stem cell biology, His lab studies neurofibromatosis — a group of genetic conditions that cause tumors to grow along nerves. #ResearchinMotion

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A potentially lifesaving new smartphone app developed by #UVAHealth and other leading institutions can help people determine if they are suffering heart attacks or strokes and should seek medical attention. 📱 Learn more: bit.ly/4ksIG3r

A potentially lifesaving new smartphone app developed by #UVAHealth and other leading institutions can help people determine if they are suffering heart attacks or strokes and should seek medical attention.

📱 Learn more: bit.ly/4ksIG3r
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Congratulations, UVA School of Nursing graduates! Your faculty are so proud of everything you’ve accomplished! Go forth and do great things! 💙🧡 #wahoowa

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This morning, before the official ceremonies began, we gathered in front of the historic Old Medical School to honor the next generation of physicians and scientists. Here’s to the class of #UVA2025 and the bright future ahead of them🥂

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Celebrating the outstanding achievements of our newest PhD and Master’s graduates.🔬 Your dedication to advancing science and scholarship inspires us all. #UVA2025

Celebrating the outstanding achievements of our newest PhD and Master’s graduates.🔬 Your dedication to advancing science and scholarship inspires us all. 

#UVA2025
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Mark Beenhakker's, PhD, lab studies the basic mechanisms of epilepsy, trying to understand where in the brain seizures begin and how they evolve. Beenhakker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology. #ResearchInMotion

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This is the sixth consecutive year that Newsweek has recognized University Medical Center as one of the nation’s best places to receive pregnancy care, deliver a baby and provide care and support for families once a baby is born. Read more: bit.ly/3Hbp5Gq Paola Gehrig

This is the sixth consecutive year that Newsweek has recognized University Medical Center as one of the nation’s best places to receive pregnancy care, deliver a baby and provide care and support for families once a baby is born. Read more: 
bit.ly/3Hbp5Gq <a href="/gehrig_paola/">Paola Gehrig</a>
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An inexpensive, long-approved HIV drug can improve vision in patients with a blinding complication of diabetes more effectively and a much lower cost than many existing treatments, an initial clinical trial suggests. 👁️ Read more: bit.ly/45fuyGv

An inexpensive, long-approved HIV drug can improve vision in patients with a blinding complication of diabetes more effectively and a much lower cost than many existing treatments, an initial clinical trial suggests. 

👁️ Read more: bit.ly/45fuyGv
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Scientists at UVA School of Medicine have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how easily or stubbornly it can reawaken from hiding. #MedX 🔬 Learn more at bit.ly/3SrQeYi

Scientists at <a href="/MedicineUVA/">UVA School of Medicine</a> have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how easily or stubbornly it can reawaken from hiding. #MedX

🔬 Learn more at bit.ly/3SrQeYi
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A groundbreaking shift in how we understand #Alzheimer’s has yielded a discovery that could be the key to stopping cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases. Read more: bit.ly/4kR5IBk UVA School of Medicine John Lukens

A groundbreaking shift in how we understand #Alzheimer’s has yielded a discovery that could be the key to stopping cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases. Read more: bit.ly/4kR5IBk <a href="/MedicineUVA/">UVA School of Medicine</a> <a href="/LukensJohnR/">John Lukens</a>
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A team led by UVA School of Medicine researcher James Stone, MD, PhD, has received $3.2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense 🇺🇸 to enhance a tool protecting the brain health of military service members. 🧠 Learn more at bit.ly/4mQfAgu

A team led by <a href="/MedicineUVA/">UVA School of Medicine</a> researcher James Stone, MD, PhD, has received $3.2 million from the U.S. <a href="/DeptofDefense/">Department of Defense 🇺🇸</a> to enhance a tool protecting the brain health of military service members. 

🧠 Learn more at bit.ly/4mQfAgu
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We're opening a national program specializing in comprehensive care for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other hypermobility disorders as early as late 2025. #MedX 🦓 Learn more at bit.ly/4kS6VYR

We're opening a national program specializing in comprehensive care for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other hypermobility disorders as early as late 2025. #MedX

🦓 Learn more at bit.ly/4kS6VYR
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New technology that allows a UVA-developed artificial pancreas to adapt to users’ changing bodies – and lets users test changes to how the system operates – improved control of their #Type1Diabetes, a UVA Health Center for Diabetes Technology UVA School of Medicine study has found. bit.ly/45gYrGm

New technology that allows a UVA-developed artificial pancreas to adapt to users’ changing bodies – and lets users test changes to how the system operates – improved control of their #Type1Diabetes, a <a href="/UVACDT/">UVA Health Center for Diabetes Technology</a> <a href="/MedicineUVA/">UVA School of Medicine</a> study has found. bit.ly/45gYrGm
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Julie Exline, PhD, a leading expert on spiritual struggles and extraordinary experiences, has been named research director of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies. She’s published more than 230 works, including over 25 on anomalous experiences. 📘 bit.ly/4mSSkhA

Julie Exline, PhD, a leading expert on spiritual struggles and extraordinary experiences, has been named research director of <a href="/UVA/">UVA</a>’s Division of Perceptual Studies. She’s published more than 230 works, including over 25 on anomalous experiences. 

📘 bit.ly/4mSSkhA
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Out-of-body experiences – where people feel like spirits disconnected from their physical form – may be a coping mechanism triggered by trauma or other overwhelming stress, new UVA School of Medicine research suggests. #MedX Read more: bit.ly/3ZPgU9x

Out-of-body experiences – where people feel like spirits disconnected from their physical form – may be a coping mechanism triggered by trauma or other overwhelming stress, new <a href="/MedicineUVA/">UVA School of Medicine</a> research suggests. #MedX

Read more: bit.ly/3ZPgU9x
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The UVA Cancer Center Community Advisory Council (CAC) has developed a community-focused roadmap to reduce cancer’s impact and contribute to the center’s plans for research and outreach across the 87 counties it serves in VA and WV. Learn more: bit.ly/4jSdmue

The <a href="/UVACancerCenter/">UVA Cancer Center</a> Community Advisory Council (CAC) has developed a community-focused roadmap to reduce cancer’s impact and contribute to the center’s plans for research and outreach across the 87 counties it serves in VA and WV.

Learn more: bit.ly/4jSdmue