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- - Scientists identify potential key to therapeutic treatments for autoimmune diseases
    A collaborative team of scientists led by Kenneth Oestreich, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has identified a novel combination of immune response factors involved in the body’s fight against invading pathogens.
- - Translational biology, medicine, and health doctoral student elected microscopy student council president
    Cameron Varano conducts structural biology research in the laboratory of Deborah Kelly, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and one of the biological sciences director for the MSA.
- - Graduate students awarded prestigious immunology fellowships
    The fellowship is designed to support the career development of young scientists by providing one year of salary support. Only 45 fellowships are awarded nationally each year.
- - Nationally recognized immunologist to discuss Bubble Boy disease and gene therapy on Thursday
    Warren J. Leonard, a National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator and elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, leads the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
- - First-generation college student Amina Rahimi selected as 2017 Goldwater Scholar
    The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
- - Smithsonian secretary to deliver distinguished public lecture at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute on May 18
    With increasingly complex problems set before society, we need more than science to offer solutions, according to David J. Skorton. The key is integrating science into other disciplines, especially in the arts and humanities.
- - Dog cognition expert and best-selling author to speak at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
    The New York Times best-selling author and distinguished professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University will discuss his research on canine cognition at 5:30 p.m. on May 9 in a talk titled, “What It’s Like to Be a Dog: Using MRI to See How Dogs Think.”
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute assistant professor elected biological sciences director for the Microscopy Society of America
    Deborah Kelly began her three-year commitment to the national society in February. As a director of biological sciences, Kelly works with the society’s executive council. The group is developing an outreach program with the goal of bringing early career scientists into the society.
- - Researchers discover how breast cancer mutation in BRCA1 causes protein to self-destruct
    Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited mutation in their BRCA1 gene. In health, the gene is responsible for suppressing tumors. In disease, the gene goes terribly awry.
- - Third class joins Virginia Tech’s translational biology, medicine, and health doctoral program
    The doctoral program is the Virginia Tech Graduate School’s largest interdisciplinary program, with more than 200 members of Virginia Tech’s Faculty of Health Sciences teaching and mentoring the students.
- - Graduate Student Assembly elects new slate of officers for 2016-17
    The Graduate Student Assembly elected its new officers at its last meeting, and also heard from Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and Provost Thanassis Rikakis.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists find new evidence of immune system plasticity
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have found a potential way to influence long-term memory formation in the immune system. The researchers published their results in Nature Communications.
- - Medical school and research institute receives Excellence in Virginia Government Award
- - Scientists unexpectedly find ALS affects sensory neurons involved in movement
    The same nerves that keep a person from crushing a flower or dropping a water glass are teaching scientists something new about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Commonly called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, the neurodegenerative disease has no cure, in part because of the difficult nature of studying the affected cells. A discovery led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, might make researching the mechanisms of the disease easier.
- - Researchers find way to make resistant brain cancer cells sensitive to treatment
    Scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and clinicians from Carilion Clinic have discovered how to sensitize drug-resistant human glioblastoma cells to chemotherapy.
- - Scientists find a small tweak may make a big difference in immune cell development
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered that even a small shift in environmental factors can change how a cell in the immune system matures.
- - Scientists develop new toolkit to examine molecular mechanisms of human disease
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists directly observe activity of genetic mutations in human breast cancer for the first time.
- - Scientist receives grant to study underpinnings of hard-to-treat, hereditary breast cancer
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist awarded $1.8 million grant to study structure of BRCA1 proteins and mutations.
- - 'Brainbow' tagging research reveals surprising data about visual connections in brain
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists examine evidence – gathered from visual circuits – that disputes a widely accepted belief about brain development.
- - Graduate student awarded Virginia Center for Health Innovation fellowship
    NithyaPriya Ramalingam, a doctoral student in the Virginia Tech Translational Biology, Medicine and Health program, was named a Virginia Center for Health Innovation fellow.

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