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- - Neuroscience expert to discuss enabling discoveries for understanding life
    James Olds, the assistant director for the Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation, will speak Feb. 11 at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists find brain plasticity assorted into functional networks
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have made a key finding of the striking differences in how the brain’s cells can change through experience.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists find new evidence of immune system plasticity
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have found a potential way to influence long-term memory formation in the immune system. The researchers published their results in Nature Communications.
- - Medical school and research institute receives Excellence in Virginia Government Award
- - Scientists unexpectedly find ALS affects sensory neurons involved in movement
    The same nerves that keep a person from crushing a flower or dropping a water glass are teaching scientists something new about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Commonly called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, the neurodegenerative disease has no cure, in part because of the difficult nature of studying the affected cells. A discovery led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, might make researching the mechanisms of the disease easier.
- - Researchers find way to make resistant brain cancer cells sensitive to treatment
    Scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and clinicians from Carilion Clinic have discovered how to sensitize drug-resistant human glioblastoma cells to chemotherapy.
- - Proposed School of Neuroscience expected to attract large interest from undergraduates
    Virginia Tech’s proposed School of Neuroscience is closer to opening after Board of Visitors' approval. “This is a step in Virginia Tech’s development into a 21st century land grant university. Every discipline grounded in human decision-making and human interaction will be transformed by our rapidly expanding understanding of how the brain works. Students across the disciplines who participate in our neuroscience curriculum will be in positions to lead in their chosen fields.”
- - Scientists find a small tweak may make a big difference in immune cell development
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered that even a small shift in environmental factors can change how a cell in the immune system matures.
- - Scientists develop new toolkit to examine molecular mechanisms of human disease
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists directly observe activity of genetic mutations in human breast cancer for the first time.
- - Scientist receives grant to study underpinnings of hard-to-treat, hereditary breast cancer
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist awarded $1.8 million grant to study structure of BRCA1 proteins and mutations.
- - Thursday lecture to explore vaccine questions
    The great vaccine debate involves questions of clinical practice, policy, and ethics. Is there a limit to the number of acceptable vaccines for children? What risks are acceptable to demand of members of the public to protect others? Who should assess the level of risk in vaccinations?
- - 'Brainbow' tagging research reveals surprising data about visual connections in brain
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists examine evidence – gathered from visual circuits – that disputes a widely accepted belief about brain development.
- - Virginia Tech Magazine explores the fight against cancer, remembers the late President Emeritus Paul Torgersen
    The summer 2015 edition of Virginia Tech Magazine explores the university community's various roles in the fight against cancer; remembers the life and career of the late Paul Torgersen, Virginia Tech's president from 1994 through 2000; overviews campus construction projects to improve traffic flow; and examines a catapult-like device designed by the Virginia Tech chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers.
- - Harald Sontheimer to hold I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science
    Harald Sontheimer, who joined Virginia Tech earlier this month to direct a university-wide neuroscience initiative, will hold the I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science. That appointment was recently approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Scientist’s dogma-challenging work recognized with prestigious grant
    Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently named a 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator.
- - Personalized saline may provide solution to heart death
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that saline solution composition can affect cardiac response differently.
- - Scientists receive grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists receive a grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness: optic nerve hypoplasia.
- - Research team heads to Antarctic to get icy insight into how brain adapts to temperature change
    Scientists are heading to Antarctica to find out, for the first time, exactly how the rising temperatures are affecting the icefishes’ brains and hearts – and what it means for the rest of the world.
- - Brain scanning reveals that birds of a feather really do flock together
    In a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that our inherent risk-taking preferences affect how we view and act on information from other people.
- - Scientists visualize potential brain cancer treatments in real time
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have developed new imaging techniques to watch dangerous brain tumor cells respond to treatment in real time.

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