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- - President Tim Sands: New decade offers great opportunity for Virginia Tech
    It is important to remember that we are one university, one interconnected network of campuses and a mission to serve our communities, the commonwealth, the nation, and the world.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists shed light on surprising visual development patterns
    The discovery shows for the first time that retinal cells recruit astrocytes to facilitate growth in visual processing brain regions.
- - Found in translation: National Institutes of Health leader to outline efforts to accelerate biomedical innovations
    Christopher Austin, director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, will talk about "an era of massive collaboration coming in biomedical sciences to get more treatments to patients."
- - New compound could help improve heart attack recovery
    Robert Gourdie, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, is working on a way to limit the damage of hypoxic ischemic injury, allowing the nearby heart muscle cells to remain intact.=https://video.vt.edu/media/New+compound+could+help+improve+heart+attack+recovery/1_v8sx1uh2
- - TBMH students awarded Research!America microgrant, launch science outreach podcast
    Produced by Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate students training at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, the new "Big Lick of Science" podcast explores biomedical research and its relevance to your life and health.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists reveal neural basis of confirmation bias
    An international research team comprising neuroscientists at Virginia Tech and the University of London revealed brain mechanisms and functional regions that underlie confirmation bias — a phenomenon where people strongly favor information that reinforces their existing opinions over contradictory ones.
- - Class of 2019: Virginia Tech Rescue Squad member Rachael Ward has heart for service
    If you’ve ever seen an Automated External Defibrillator on campus — or had to use one — you have the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad and the efforts of Ward and her team to thank.
- - Robert Gibson named business partnership development director for Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, LINK
    Gibson is responsible for developing and nurturing partnerships between Virginia Tech scientists and companies seeking to introduce cutting-edge health science discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.
- - New Fralin Biomedical Research Institute faculty member links nature, nurture, and early brain development
    Brittany Howell, assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, studies how maternal characteristics and behavior impact brain development in infants. Howell will start recruiting new mothers to participate in her lab’s research studies in 2020.
- - A message from President Tim Sands at the end of the 2019 fall semester
- - Virginia Tech, Indivior announce new collaboration to study long-term recovery pathways in people with opioid use disorder
    The study will be carried out by a team of researchers led by Warren Bickel, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, and a professor of psychology in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
- - Digital health care expert to discuss future of tech, patient care at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    John Halamka, chief information officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will discuss how technological innovations are revolutionizing health care worldwide on Dec. 12 at a free public lecture in Roanoke.
- - Biomedical, business, engineering teams line up for shark-tank style competition
    With a focus on health sciences and technology, the HS&T Hokie Pitch will involve 30 students who have worked with real-world mentors, selected intellectual property, and created an entrepreneurial plan to develop and commercialize biomedical discoveries.
- - Global cancer expert to address how social inequities raise survival risks at Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
    Ophira Ginsburg, medical oncologist and executive director of the High-Risk Cancer Genetics Program at New York University’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, will discuss how social inequalities negatively impact cancer survival rates on Dec. 5 in Roanoke.
- - Virginia Tech faculty receive top honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Elected by their peers and representing a broad range of AAAS “sections,” including statistics, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, and geology/geography, the Virginia Tech professors are among 443 newly elected scholars.
- - 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.

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