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- - New study shows how common parasitic infection can cause seizures and psychiatric illness for some
    Forty million Americans are infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. New research by scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC describes how brain circuits change as the parasite finds long-term shelter inside brain cells.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists reveal how brain tumors impact normally supportive cells
    The same brain cells designed to stop brain damage fail to support healthy neurons when a cancer grows. New research, led by Stefanie Robel and Harald Sontheimer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, reveals how gliomas alter astrocytes, a cell type that helps protect neurons and is crucial to preventing seizures.
- - Medical student Christopher Liao’s research has potential implications for Alzheimer’s disease
    As many as 5.5 million Americans over the age of 65 may have Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive brain disorder that currently has no cure, according to the National Institutes of Health.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to explore how a baby’s brain develops at Brain School
    This year’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC Brain School speaker lineup features interactive presentations about what influences early brain development and how these factors relate to infant health.
- - iTHRIV announces statewide health research pilot projects recipients
    The Clinical and Translational Science Award partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Carilion Clinic, and Inova Health System has awarded funding to four research projects.
- - Virginia Tech students win awards at Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
    Malikah Ajose and Jessica Gannon were honored for their outstanding presentations at ABRCMS - one of the largest communities of underrepresented minorities in STEM.
- - Neuroscience’s Mike Bowers seeks cause, cure for stuttering with help from Virginia Tech alumnus
    Neuroscientists think they’ve identified four mutant genes behind stuttering and stammering, but they don’t yet know the connection, the why – a misfire, a miscommunication, a 1 where there needs to be a 0 – between those genes and difficulty in speaking.
- - Class of 2019: Virginia Tech Rescue Squad member Rachael Ward has heart for service
    If you’ve ever seen an Automated External Defibrillator on campus — or had to use one — you have the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad and the efforts of Ward and her team to thank.
- - Class of 2019: Virginia Tech Rescue Squad member Alyssa Case always ready to serve
    Case has served in a number of roles within the squad, including as an attendant, assisting with patient care on emergency calls; as the former director of special projects; and currently as an ambulance driver.
- - Global Change Center partners with Hollins University to promote undergraduate research opportunities
    The partnership, continuing into its third year, pairs distinguished undergraduate students with Virginia Tech professors for a summer of unique research opportunities.
- - A renovated Sandy Hall welcomes the School of Neuroscience
    Extensive renovations and the construction of two new additions at Sandy Hall will help expand teaching and administrative capacity for the School of Neuroscience within the College of Science.
- - Leading aging, vision experts to keynote international precision neuroscience conference in Roanoke this spring
    Neuroscientists, physicians, and graduate students from across the world will gather at the Precision Neuroscience Conference hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, in May.
- - Researchers study the mechanisms behind learning and long-term memory in the brain
    Hehuang “David” Xie, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and his collaborators just published a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
- - Six College of Science faculty receive fellowships from Board of Visitors to support research
    Each of the three-year fellowships is dedicated to recognizing faculty for extraordinary research and teaching as well as recruiting scholars with exceptional records of achievement.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientist earns grant to examine ‘catastrophic’ seizure disorder
    Sharon Swanger, an assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has won a $150,000 Dravet Syndrome Foundation research grant.
- - Graduate student earns prestigious NIH award to map unexplored brain region, study optic nerve regeneration
    Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health (TBMH) graduate student, has won a National Institutes of Health award that will fund his remaining TBMH predoctoral research and his future postdoctoral research. The award supports outstanding graduate students of underrepresented backgrounds in neuroscience research.
- - Students selected to present undergraduate research at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
    The group of Virginia Tech students was selected from a variety of disciplines to represent the university and share diverse research topics with their peers.
- - Virginia Tech graduate students selected to join competitive Society for Neuroscience program
    Amnah Eltahir and Alyssa Brunal-Brown, Virginia Tech graduate students at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, were accepted into the Society for Neuroscience’s fellowship and associate programs, respectively.
- - Class of 2019: Alyssa Johnson found her passion for research after coming to Virginia Tech from community college
    When Johnson walked across the stage in cap and gown as a 2014 high school senior in Manassas, Virginia, she had no idea that just a few years later she’d be preparing to make a similar walk across a stage as a graduating double major at Virginia Tech.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors sets tuition and fees, advances new Ph.D. program in neuroscience
    During its quarterly meeting March 31-April 1, the board also approved the demolition of Holden Hall's north wing, selected student representatives for the coming year, and adopted resolutions for multiple faculty appointments and emerita/emeritus status.

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