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- - Search committee for VTCSOM dean announced
- - Carmouche and Sheng receive 2018 VTCSOM Outstanding Research Mentor Awards
    Students and alumni nominated individuals who provided clear expectations and high standards for students to conduct original hypothesis-driven research effectively and provide opportunities for professional growth.
- - Kimberly Horn named associate vice president for clinical research collaboratives
    Horn will grow existing and develop new collaborative research programs between Virginia Tech and its primary clinical partner, Carilion Clinic, in partnership with other universities, health systems, federal agencies, private foundations, and appropriate industry partners.
- - President of nation’s largest health and science public education and advocacy organization to speak at VTCRI
    Mary Woolley, president and chief executive officer of Research!America, will speak at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute on April 5.
- - VTCRI scientist awarded $2 million National Cancer Institute grant to study breast cancer
    The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Deborah Kelly, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, $2 million to study the mutated form of the breast cancer susceptibility protein that is implicated in hereditary breast cancer.
- - Scientists gain insight into the earliest changes that impair motor function during aging
    A team of biomedical scientists has found that motor neurons responsible for controlling muscle movement do not age. Rather, it's the synaptic inputs connected to the motor neurons that age and cause bodily decay.
- - VTCRI researchers join forces to improve life for children with genetic disorder
    The accomplishments of three girls who received intensive therapy based on innovative pediatric neurorehabilitation research at the VTCRI have been documented in a report published in BMC Research Notes.
- - Medical student's research informs understanding of cellular communication during viral heart infections
    Fourth-year Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Vu Phan will be one of eight students from the class of 2018 giving oral presentations as part of the VTCSOM Medical Student Research Symposium.
- - Medical student’s research shows promise as method to help quit smoking
    Perisa Ruhi found that smokers were more likely to value a future without cigarettes when envisioning future events with smoking-related illness symptoms, such as lung cancer.
- - National expert on cognitive control to deliver VTCRI Distinguished Public Lecture
    Jonathan Cohen, co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University, will discuss the limitations of human focus during his presentation, “On the Rational Boundedness of Cognitive Control,” at 5:30 p.m. on March 22 at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
- - New study targets effects of social media on collective action
    Researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech are trying to understand how information spreads through social media, as well as the underlying thought processes of the individuals and groups involved. The research could help policymakers better predict social movements and uprisings.
- - Clare Boothe Luce Program supports research by female undergraduates
    The funding will be used over the next three years to provide 24 Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Research Awards that will help make it possible for students to participate in research over the summer.
- - Researchers discover molecular mechanism of hereditary, tumor-causing disease
    Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome is a rare disease, affecting about one in every 36,000 people, according to the National Institutes of Health. People with the disorder have an increased risk for developing cancer, but a main concern is on the syndrome’s characteristic benign growths.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists seek unfiltered truth about 'light' cigarettes
    VTCRI scientists will focus on how ventilated filters on cigarettes, product packaging, and messaging have affected cigarette use, and also how alternative nicotine delivery systems — such as electronic cigarettes — can be used to modify smoking behavior.
- - VTCRI to host sixth annual Brain School, other Brain Awareness Week activities
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s sixth annual Brain School, Hijacking and Augmenting the Brain: Drugs, Bugs, and Devices, will focus on how outside factors can influence the brain’s chemistry and decision-making capacity and how the brain can interface with the outside world through digital devices.
- - VTCRI addiction expert to inform White House panel on Tuesday
    Warren Bickel, an addiction neuroscientist with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will brief a group of White House officials on the latest behavioral decision science underlying drug addiction and intervention, particularly in terms of opioids.
- - Medical student keeps up academics and diversity work in spite of his own cancer diagnosis
    As a medical student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Omar Salman had learned a lot about cancer: from what goes wrong at the cellular level to cause it as well as patient risk factors and treatment options. But cancer became something new when Salman got his own diagnosis of bone marrow cancer.
- - Science comedian makes people laugh - and think
    On Sunday, Brian Malow will moderate a panel, “The Role of the University in an Era of Science Skepticism and 'Fake News.'" On Monday, he will discuss science communication and perform his popular stand-up comedy routine.
- - Leading clinician scientist on cardiovascular disparities and women’s health to speak at VTCRI on Friday
    Elizabeth Ofili's presentation, “Democratizing Discovery Health with N=Me,” is a part of the Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series. The talk will be webcast.
- - With traveling clinic, Virginia Tech to take autism services to rural Virginia
    From spring through November, faculty and graduate students will drive an RV, converted into a mobile clinic, to far Southwest Virginia to offer therapy and other services for children with autism spectrum disorder.

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