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iTHRIV Scholar and Assistant Professor Lee Ann Johnson is one of 50 promising early career scholars selected for the NIH/NIMHHD’s annual flagship Health Disparities Research Institute, which takes place in August 2022.

Research Assistant Professor Amanda Nguyen wins 2022 Translation Science Award and receives a grant to support her work with Cambodian community mental health.

Thanks to all those who made the 2021-2022 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab a success! It was a great week full of hard work, innovative ideas, and collaboration. 2022-2023 BDSIL information is coming soon, stay tuned...

Former participants in iTHRIV's "Inspiring Diverse Researchers in Virginia" (iDRIV), Angelina June, MD and Ifeyinwa Obiorah, MD have been inducted into UVA's Academy for Excellence in Education. Founded in 2020, the Academy for Excellence in Education aims to build an inclusive learning community of educators across the biomedical sciences and UVA Health to foster and honor educational excellence

Assefa, a recent graduate of UVA, participated in the UVA-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Summer Research Bridge to Data Science program (Bridge) as a research fellow. This program is co-sponsored by integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), the UVA School of Data Science (UVA SDS), Oracle, and Deloitte. According to the UVA SDS, the UVA-HBCU Summer

McCulloch wants his young patients to live, and many of them won’t without a new heart. He knows that almost 20% of all pediatric patients on the wait list for hearts in the United States die before they receive one. But the heart must be healthy and a good match for the patient or a transplant could make matters worse. How does he decide?

Multiple sclerosis patients who adopt a “keto” diet may see health improvements on multiple fronts, new research co-authored by UVA Health shows. The ketogenic diet – popular for weight loss and among the fitness community – was put to the test among 65 volunteers with relapsing-remitting MS, an inflammatory disorder in which the immune system attacks the natural insulation that protects the body

The quarterly seminar series is designed to amplify diverse perspectives in clinical and translational research, and in doing so, foster innovation and an inclusive environment. The goal is to learn from one another about the impact of different lived experiences on the work that people do. The presenters will share their science and also their lived experience as an underrepresented person in

From music streaming platforms to social media feeds and search engines, algorithms are used behind the scenes to tailor services to the unique preferences of individuals. Though the use of algorithms has been explored in health care since the origins of artificial intelligence, new strides in deep learning methods over the last decade are allowing clinicians to go after mass amounts of data that

CUBE is a 12-week program that educates and empowers undergraduate students in biostatistics through a full-time collaborative data analysis project, along with related professional development seminars, social events, and a final symposium where students present their research. Follow the link to read about the CUBE Program.

Bradford Worrall, MD, MSc, has been awarded the Outstanding Stroke Research Mentor Award by the American Stroke Association at the 2022 International Stroke Conference (ISC). Click the link to read more!

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, a National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award hub, has awarded almost $80,000 in seed funding across two community-focused projects. The seed grant program is part of iTHRIV’s goal to promote translational science that bridges the gap between health researchers and community. The

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical and Translational Research Award hub, has awarded $200,000 in pilot funding across five multi-institutional research projects. Teams of physicians, researchers, sustainability experts and software engineers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Virginia

The Integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) with support from the University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) is participating in the “Building Up a Diverse Workforce for Biomedical Research” study. Building Up is a national study led by the University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) and aims to test the effectiveness of a career development intervention developed for postdocs and

The Foundations of Biomedical Data Science at the University of Virginia hosted its fifth annual Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab (BDSIL): Challenges in Brain Analytics and Data Integration on June 21-25, 2021. The BDSIL is an intensive program partially sponsored by iTHRIV and NIH Grant #R25GM139080 that has virtual and in-person components designed to foster the development of

Sample code templates developed by the iTHRIV CTSA team enable rapid analytics onboarding to the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave is an analytics platform containing clinical data from electronic health records from over 55 sites around the country. This data from SARS-CoV-2 positive patients (and matched controls)

The iTHRIV Research Data Commons is a new solution that provides health researchers and data stewards with a single interface to manage, share and use research data throughout its lifecycle, from initial design and approval through data collection and analysis, and ultimately publication. The product facilitates access while enhancing compliance, making it a win for both research teams and