Is UVA getting smarter about how it plays its biotech research cards?

When University of Virginia neuroscientist Harald Sontheimer shared this year’s International Prize for Translational Neuroscience with Stanford’s Michelle Monje, publicity about the award created the impression of a partnership. The two were credited with the potentially life-saving and, thus, marketable discovery that gliomas—deadly brain tumors—wire themselves into neural networks, hijacking brain activity to fuel their […]

Getting a read on interim UVA President Paul Mahoney and his future

Former University of Virginia law school dean Paul G. Mahoney, the interim president of UVA, officially began the job August 11.  Will history record him as a stop-gap public servant or the university’s 10th president? The U.S. Department of Justice asserts that practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion  at UVA and other universities are […]