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- - Scientists explore new method to help people with alcohol use disorder
    New ways to help people resist the siren call of alcohol have not kept pace — which leaves health care providers stuck with the same intervention and rehabilitation options they have been using for decades. But now, Virginia Tech scientists are studying whether people battling alcohol use disorder might gain some relief by “pre-experiencing” the future.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Regional government forum reveals 'limitless potential' from Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic partnership
    Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and Carilion Clinic’s President and Chief Executive Officer Nancy Howell Agee set the tone for the meeting by portraying how both organizations have invested significantly throughout the region and across the commonwealth.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientists discover compound that could shield heart tissue
    Imagine there was a drug that you could take soon after a heart attack that could reduce damage by protecting healthy heart muscle tissue.
- - Roanoke scientists give local youth behind-the-scenes look at biomedical research
    For the second year, Roanoke youth enrolled in Goodwill Industries of the Valley's YouthHQ@Goodwill Science Camp visited the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC this week. The campers learned about careers in science, microscopy, genetics, viruses, and how a heartbeat happens.
- - iTHRIV, community groups partner to improve health of Virginians
    The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia has awarded a total of $80,000 in community health research grants to four multi-institutional biomedical research projects.
- - Researchers link energy metabolism in cells with changes in disease expression
    Virginia Tech scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have revealed how different levels of a mitochondrial genetic mutation could cause a rare form of adult-onset diabetes in some people and a childhood-onset progressive neurodegenerative disorder in others.
- - FDA deems molecular test for concussions ‘breakthrough device’
    BRAINBox Solutions, a molecular diagnostics innovator that works extensively with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, announced it has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration Breakthrough Device Designation to speed development of a product that includes a blood-based test to aid in prognosis and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.
- - Lost in translation: The medium is the message for a healthy heartbeat
    Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have revealed how a genetic message to produce healthy heart tissue is altered in the body during stress and aging to contribute to sudden cardiac death.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute addiction scientist to receive international honor for translational research
    Addiction researcher Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, will receive the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.
- - Universities lead effort to help Appalachians trapped by opioid epidemic
    Universities led by Virginia Tech will unite scientists, a range of health-care and service providers, and communities, including individuals in recovery, to confront the opioid problem, directly in the epicenter of the epidemic.
- - Hundreds of STEM high school students to compete at Virginia Science and Engineering Fair
    Hosted by volunteers from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, 274 students will present their projects on April 6 at the Berglund Special Events Center in Roanoke.
- - Nation’s first clinical trial for rehabilitating infant stroke victims to begin
    Called I-ACQUIRE, the Phase III clinic trial will examine the effectiveness of a pediatric therapy to increase upper extremity skills, gross motor development, and cognition in 240 children nationwide who experienced strokes when they were under 4 weeks old.
- - National Institutes of Health provides $23 million for statewide translational research institute
    The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, which includes Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic as partners, has been awarded the grant to advance innovative ideas from the point of discovery to implementation in clinical practice and population health.
- - Economist, UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss world’s 'most important agenda'
    Sachs will give his presentation "Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World" at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at 2 Riverside Circle in Roanoke. The event will be free and open to the public.
- - HS&T fellows dive deep to learn how to commercialize ideas
    Harshawardhan Deshpande, Daniel Hoagland, and Ryan King will talk about their experiences at a presentation at noon on Feb. 19 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

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