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- - Virginia Tech professor receives $1.85 million NIH grant to study sepsis
    Caroline Jones, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, received the grant to study the factors that underlie the decision-making processes that determine immune cell migration, differentiation, and activation in response to sepsis.
- - Virginia Tech announces expansive cancer research initiative
    Virginia Tech has developed a university-wide cancer research strategy to create and expand synergies among more than 30 existing research teams at work finding new ways to diagnose and treat cancer.
- - Veterinary college researchers aiming to develop therapeutic strategies for pregnant women with lupus
    To help women with lupus experience healthy pregnancies and successful outcomes, a team of researchers in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine explored the possible role of gut microbiota in the link between pregnancy and the exacerbation of lupus.
- - Regional government forum reveals 'limitless potential' from Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic partnership
    Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and Carilion Clinic’s President and Chief Executive Officer Nancy Howell Agee set the tone for the meeting by portraying how both organizations have invested significantly throughout the region and across the commonwealth.
- - Ubadah Sabbagh thrives on collaboration
    During Friday's State of the University address, Sabbagh joined President Sands from his lab to talk about Virginia Tech's expansion in Roanoke.
- - 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.
- - Graduate student in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health program receives prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Ben Barres Fellowship
    Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student working at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, won the award as the most distinguished graduate student.
- - 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.
- - Lost in translation: The medium is the message for a healthy heartbeat
    Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have revealed how a genetic message to produce healthy heart tissue is altered in the body during stress and aging to contribute to sudden cardiac death.
- - Madelynn Todd, Ryan King to represent students on Board of Visitors
    The two students will begin their one-year terms on July 1.
- - 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.
- - Economist, UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss world’s 'most important agenda'
    Sachs will give his presentation "Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World" at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at 2 Riverside Circle in Roanoke. The event will be free and open to the public.
- - VTCRI scientists find that sensory neurons can be used to discover therapies for ALS
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) scientists examined sensory neurons in cell cultures and in mice with ALS-causing mutant genes. They found that sensory neurons’ axons exhibit similar pathological changes found in motor neurons afflicted with ALS.
- - Roanoke-based Virginia Tech graduate student selected as a Society for Neuroscience fellow
    Ubadah Sabbagh is a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program.
- - Veterinary college researcher awarded grant to study herpes simplex virus
    The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Andrea Bertke, an assistant professor of infectious diseases in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, $1.7 million to study the neuron-specific regulation of herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2.
- - VTCRI scientist earns third concurrent grant from the National Cancer Institute to study breast cancer
    Deb Kelly, who is also an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, is working to better detect, prevent, and repair the mutations found in cancers related to the breast cancer susceptibility protein, BRCA1.
- - VTCRI scientist awarded $2 million grant to study immune memory response
    The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a new five-year grant to Ken Oestreich, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, to study immunological memory.
- - VTCRI scientists, Carilion clinicians first to identify perinexus in human heart
    The research team was led by Steven Poelzing, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, and Soufian AlMahameed, who was a clinician associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the director of Carilion Clinic’s Center for Atrial Fibrillation at the time of data collection.
- - VTCRI scientists identify novel cellular mechanism that can lead to cancer metastasis
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have added a new dimension to the understanding of how cells alter their communication with one another during development, wound healing, and the spread of cancer.
- - National expert on the behavioral science of scarcity to speak at VTCRI
    Eldar Shafir will discuss the complex psychology of poverty and the tradeoffs people must make when resources are scarce on May 17 at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

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