Virginia Tech to establish graduate program in Translational Biology,...
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors recently approved a resolution to create a new doctor of philosophy degree in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health. The interdisciplinary program will...
View ArticleNew doctoral program lauded by leading association of medical colleges for...
The new program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health recently approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors has received national acclaim from the leading association for medical schools,...
View ArticleVirginia Tech earns new National Institutes of Health award in biomedical...
Virginia Tech has been named one of 10 academic institutions to receive a first-of-its-kind grant from the National Institutes of Health to help prepare graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for...
View ArticleBoard of Visitors approves Faculty of Health Sciences
At its quarterly meeting earlier this week, Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors approved a resolution to create a Faculty of Health Sciences. The new organizational framework is intended to serve as a...
View ArticleState Council of Higher Education for Virginia honors Wu Feng with...
The Outstanding Faculty Award is the commonwealth's highest honor for university faculty. It honors a Virginia faculty member’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration,...
View ArticleGene removal could have implications beyond plant science
The ability to remove or replace single genes within a plant could hold the key to treating disease states within humans according to Virginia Tech biological scientist Zachary Nimchuk.
View ArticleVirginia Tech welcomes first class of students in new, innovative doctoral...
The new interdisciplinary program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health will develop translational researchers who will transform fundamental biological discoveries into new approaches to...
View ArticleThe Internet was delivered to the masses; parallel computing is not far behind
The groundwork for Wu Feng's big data research in a "cloud" began about a decade ago. Today, this work is being formalized and extended as part of an National Science Foundation/Microsoft Computing in...
View ArticleGoing viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists were awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, part of the Center for Innovative Technology, to engineer a viral...
View ArticleBrain School 2015 focuses on beginnings
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute hosts its third annual Brain School this month. Sessions are free, yet limited by space restrictions, so online registration is required.
View ArticleSeven Virginia Tech graduate students to join Bouchet Honor Society
The Virginia Tech Graduate School announced the seven inaugural members of the university’s chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
View ArticleMedical student research featured at second annual symposium
Members of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's soon-to-graduate class presented research projects they have been pursuing for nearly four years.
View ArticleScientists visualize potential brain cancer treatments in real time
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have developed new imaging techniques to watch dangerous brain tumor cells respond to treatment in real time.
View ArticleBrain scanning reveals that birds of a feather really do flock together
In a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that our inherent risk-taking preferences affect how we view and act on information...
View ArticleResearch team heads to Antarctic to get icy insight into how brain adapts to...
Virginia Tech Carilion Research scientists are heading to Antarctica as part of a large collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation to study, for the first time, exactly how the rising...
View ArticleScientists receive grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists receive a grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness: optic nerve hypoplasia.
View ArticlePersonalized saline may provide solution to heart death
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists recently published a paper on how the components of saline solution affect cardiac conduction in the European Journal of Physiology.
View ArticleScientist’s dogma-challenging work recognized with prestigious grant
Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently named a 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator.
View ArticleHarald Sontheimer to hold I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science
For the past two decades at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Harald Sontheimer has led several major programs, including the Civitan International Research Center on Intellectual Disabilities...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Magazine explores the fight against cancer, remembers the late...
The summer 2015 edition of Virginia Tech Magazine is available now in print and online.
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