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Results for Center for Glial Biology in Health, Disease, and Cancer
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Tracking fluid flow in tumors, tissues drives new Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientist , articleJennifer Munson is a biomedical engineer and one of a handful of scientists examining how interstitial flow – the flow of fluids in the spaces surrounding cells within human tissues – can aggravate cancers, accelerate Alzheimer’s disease, and effectively deliver drugs. She joined the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s primary faculty team this summer.
Date: Jan 01, 2021 -
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Scientists advance understanding of blood-brain barrier health with implications for brain disease , articleThe finding gives scientists a path to understand diseases where frequent blood-brain barrier damage occurs, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
Date: Sep 21, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech COVID-19 lab ready to test thousands of student samples , articleStarting this week, as students begin to return to campus for the fall semester, the lab’s capacity of 1,000 tests per day will also be dedicated to Virginia Tech students and employees in high-contact roles.
Date: Aug 09, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech scientists developing new strategy to thwart Alzheimer’s , articleSupported by a new, five-year, $2.8 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to Harald Sontheimer, a glial neurobiologist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, scientists are probing changes caused by aging in the circulatory system in the normal brain and Alzheimer’s disease brain.
Date: Jul 07, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech cancer researcher Carla Finkielstein to join Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , articleFinkielstein, a molecular biologist and an associate professor in the College of Science, will join the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC on July 1. Her laboratory, which studies how circadian rhythms are involved in breast cancer progression, will move to the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke.
Date: Jun 23, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech researchers develop new COVID-19 tests to combat backlogs, shortages , articleVirginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to immediately begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.
Date: Apr 22, 2020 -
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Scientists reveal how brain tumors impact normally supportive cells , articleThe same brain cells designed to stop brain damage fail to support healthy neurons when a cancer grows. New research, led by Stefanie Robel and Harald Sontheimer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, reveals how gliomas alter astrocytes, a cell type that helps protect neurons and is crucial to preventing seizures.
Date: Apr 01, 2020 -
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Graduate student receives first Mitzi L. Frank Memorial Scholarship to support cancer research , articleThe inaugural Mitzi L. Frank Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Jesse Janoski, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, who is researching cancer and circadian rhythms.
Date: Feb 04, 2020 -
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Children’s National Hospital, Virginia Tech announce partnership for new Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus , articleThe 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.
Date: Nov 14, 2019 -
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Virginia Tech announces expansive cancer research initiative , articleVirginia 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.
Date: Oct 16, 2019 -
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Scientists solve century-old neuroscience mystery; answers may lead to epilepsy treatment , articleSince 1893, scientists have known about enigmatic structures called perineuronal nets wrapped around neurons, but the function of the nets remained elusive. Now, a research team led by Harald Sontheimer has determined the nets modulate electrical impulses in the brain.
Date: Nov 09, 2018 -
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![Rob Gourdie, Samy Lamouille, Harald Sontheimer, and Zhi Sheng [from left] have established research programs into the type of cancer recently diagnosed in U.S. Sen John McCain.](/content/vtnews_vt_edu/en/articles/2017/07/glioblastoma-vtcri-0724/_jcr_content/article-image.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute teams converge on strategies to defeat McCain’s form of brain cancer , articleResearch teams at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute from three colleges — Engineering, Science, and Veterinary Medicine — are developing new approaches to treat glioblastoma, the aggressive form of brain cancer recently diagnosed in U.S. Sen. John McCain.
Date: Jul 24, 2017 -
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute research award a first for Virginia Tech Carilion , articleOscar Alcoreza, a Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student about to complete his second year, has been awarded a highly competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) fellowship to devote a year to in-depth, mentored biomedical research at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
Date: Apr 28, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists gain insight in cause of Alzheimer’s symptoms , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that could account for some of the neural degeneration and memory loss in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Date: Nov 24, 2015
