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- - Theresa Mayer outlines success, opportunities for Virginia Tech research
    Mayer, vice president for Research and Innovation, highlighted the ways that research at Virginia Tech has grown over the past few decades and its role in shaping the university’s mission.
- - 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.
- - Cardiology expert to open VTCRI Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series
    Anthony Rosenzweig, the chief of cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-director of the Corrigan Minehan Center, and the Paul Dudley White Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will review how exercise protects the heart in his talk titled, “Can Exercise Teach Us to Treat Heart Failure?”
- - Area businessman, benefactor Maury Strauss gives $1 million to VTCRI lecture series
    Renamed the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series, the new season begins Oct. 4.
- - Vet med alumnus named associate vice president for research and innovation
    David Schabdach will serve as the attending veterinarian and direct the university program for laboratory animal resources in Virginia Tech's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
- - Leaders mark construction milestone for VTC Biomedical Research Addition
    A crowd watched on Friday as a crane hoisted a steel beam four stories into the sky at the construction site for the Virginia Tech Biomedical Research Addition in Roanoke.
- - Addiction experts from VTCRI and Stanford call for more neuroscience research on long-term recovery
    September is addiction recovery month, and, in the midst of the current opioid epidemic, it’s an apt moment for addiction research experts to map the future path forward for a long-term recovery strategy for substance abuse.
- - VTCRI hackathon to draw coders from Intel, Princeton, Yale
    Researchers and software developers will be writing code to analyze the ultimate computer — the brain — at the BrainIAK Hackathon, a three-day event beginning Sept. 26 for people who would like to use, build, or improve software related to neuroscience and machine learning.
- - VTCRI research team identifies a potential strategy in fight against brain cancer
    Scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute say a gene involved in the body’s sleep cycle is a potential target for therapies to help patients with a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
- - New Virginia Tech biomedical engineering degree to focus on technology transfer, health care
    The new degree program will emphasize engineering fundamentals, translational technology, and hands-on learning opportunities with a goal of meeting the nation's projected demand for engineers who can be integrated into comprehensive health care teams.
- - VTCSOM student receives American Heart Association scholarship for cardiac research at VTCRI
    The scholarship is awarded to medical or predoctoral graduate students who are researching cardiovascular disease topics within a basic, clinical, or population sciences framework and is based on the quality of a proposal, the institution’s supporting supervision, and the student’s academic achievement.
- - VTCRI scientist awarded new federal grant to study cardiac conduction in health, disease
    The grant will fund Steven Poelzing’s research into a heart mutation, known as a gain-of-function mutation, that can lead to sudden cardiac death and other heart conditions.
- - Virginia Tech appoints Assistant Vice President of Advancement for Roanoke Kim Blair
    The move reflects the university’s growing presence in the city, where the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine have emerged as economic anchors.
- - Expert in bioethics, human research protection to lead new division
    Lisa M. Lee, former executive director of Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, will direct the Division of Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance within the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
- - President Tim Sands highlights research accomplishments, outlines work ahead in State of the University
    Sands encouraged the audience to consider what Virginia Tech will look like in four years, when its sesquicentennial class graduates, and how the university can best serve Virginia in the future.
- - Board of Visitors discusses parent leave benefits, future facility projects at Roanoke meeting
    During the three-day meeting, board members visited and toured Virginia Tech facilities and programs located in the greater Roanoke Valley.
- - The heart: digital or analog? VTCRI researchers shed dramatic new light on disorders of heart bioelectricity
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have found evidence that may disrupt conventional understanding about how electrical activity travels in the heart — a discovery that potentially can lead to new insight into medical problems, such as heart arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death.
- - Fulbright fellowship awarded to VTCRI research assistant
    Brennan Delattre will research the mental health benefits of cooperative movement in Niterói, Brazil.
- - Heart association to support VTCRI biological sciences grad student's research into sudden cardiac death
    Patrick Calhoun is investigating how a viral infection that causes a mild cough in the lungs may have a much more severe effect in heart tissue.
- - A SMART combination: Graduate student credits Virginia Tech mentors, support programs with scholarship award
    Katrina Colucci-Chang, a biomedical engineering doctoral student, credits the support she received from faculty mentors and her involvement in various Virginia Tech programs with her Department of Defense SMART Scholarship.

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