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- - Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students now receive complimentary membership at the Taubman Museum of Art
    Building on the university’s expanding presence in Roanoke, the new year-long pilot program provides free unlimited admission to exhibitions and special museum events, as well as discounts on classes and at the museum café and gift shop.
- - Children’s National Hospital, Virginia Tech announce partnership for new Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus
    The campus is an expansion of Children’s National that is located on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and is set to open its first phase in December 2020.
- - Zebrafish study reveals developmental mechanisms of eye movement
    Zebrafish research is a promising way to understand the neural and genetic causes of eye movement problems in people, according to multi-university research led by Albert Pan of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
- - Leading climate policy expert to disclose strategies at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    Vicki Arroyo, founding executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center, will describe the consequences of climate change and how government and community leaders are shifting to cleaner energy sources and adapting to new environmental conditions. The free lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke.
- - iTHRIV CTSA Scholar Program now accepting applications
    The iTHRIV Scholar Career Development Program aims to train the next generation of translational researchers in principles of data science and the conduct of rigorous and reproducible science, while also promoting team science as a means to enhance innovation and discovery in health-related research.
- - Veterinary college’s clinical trials advance cancer care in pets and people
    Thanks to collaborations between veterinary medicine, biomedical engineering, and cancer biology at Virginia Tech, the university is on the cusp of the next truly big breakthrough in treating cancer.
- - Alexandra Hanlon will lead Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science in College of Science
    Launched earlier this year, the program is based at the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences Campus in Roanoke. As director, Hanlon and her team will collaborate with researchers from across Virginia Tech and the region who are studying health-related issues.
- - Medical school student Miranda Gerrard advocates for rural communities here and abroad
    Given her background as one of the few students with a farm upbringing, the now third-year student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine has earned a loving nickname from her classmates, “Moo-randa.”
- - American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow searches ‘secret molecular world’ for clues underlying vascular disease
    Laura Beth Payne, a postdoctoral associate at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded a two-year American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship to study molecular interactions in healthy and abnormal microvasculature.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - National health official to address minority health disparities at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    Eliseo Perez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, will give the free, hour-long Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 in Roanoke.
- - Crime Alert: Stalking incident near Riverside 2 parking garage, Virginia Tech Carilion
    On Oct. 9, the Carilion Clinic Police received a report of a stalking incident that occurred on Sept. 27 and Oct. 9 respectively in the area of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion.
- - Andrew Ickes named development director for the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
    Ickes will work closely with other members of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s advancement team.
- - 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.
- - Pioneering neuro-geneticist to join Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
    Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, currently the director of the George Washington University Institute for Neuroscience and the Lieberman Professor of Neuroscience, will move his research program to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
- - Virginia Tech appoints assistant vice president for health sciences education Leanna Blevins
    In her new role, Blevins will be responsible for integrating undergraduate programs into the health sciences campus in Roanoke while building partnerships that will help establish an even more holistic, vibrant, and sustainable campus ecosystem in Roanoke.
- - NIH-funded health research grants available to nonprofits, government agencies
    Community organizations can now apply to receive 12-month health research grants up to $20,000 through the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV).
- - Children’s National Hospital taps Virginia Tech health sciences leader for advisory board
    Michael J. Friedlander, the vice president for health sciences at Virginia Tech and executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will aid Children’s National efforts to improve understanding of the prevention, treatment, and care of childhood diseases.
- - NIH-funded Translational and Clinical Studies grants available to researchers through CTSA hub
    The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Carilion Clinic, and Inova Health System is now accepting applications for its 12-month Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies Program grants.

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