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Scientist receives grant to study underpinnings of hard-to-treat, hereditary breast cancer , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist awarded $1.8 million grant to study structure of BRCA1 proteins and mutations.
Date: Sep 11, 2015 -
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Thursday lecture to explore vaccine questions , articleThe 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?
Date: Sep 09, 2015 -
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'Brainbow' tagging research reveals surprising data about visual connections in brain , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists examine evidence – gathered from visual circuits – that disputes a widely accepted belief about brain development.
Date: Aug 31, 2015 -
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Virginia Tech Magazine explores the fight against cancer, remembers the late President Emeritus Paul Torgersen , articleThe 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.
Date: Jul 30, 2015 -
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Harald Sontheimer to hold I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science , articleHarald 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.
Date: Jun 22, 2015 -
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Scientist’s dogma-challenging work recognized with prestigious grant , articleMichael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently named a 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator.
Date: Jun 03, 2015 -
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Personalized saline may provide solution to heart death , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that saline solution composition can affect cardiac response differently.
Date: May 29, 2015 -
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Scientists receive grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists receive a grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness: optic nerve hypoplasia.
Date: May 28, 2015 -
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Research team heads to Antarctic to get icy insight into how brain adapts to temperature change , articleScientists 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.
Date: May 21, 2015 -
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Brain scanning reveals that birds of a feather really do flock together , articleIn 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.
Date: May 19, 2015 -
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Scientists visualize potential brain cancer treatments in real time , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have developed new imaging techniques to watch dangerous brain tumor cells respond to treatment in real time.
Date: Apr 10, 2015 -
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Medical student research featured at second annual symposium , articleThe Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is producing strong scientist physicians, as evidenced by the second annual VTCSOM Medical Student Research Symposium.
Date: Apr 03, 2015 -
Article ItemSeven Virginia Tech graduate students to join Bouchet Honor Society , article
Seven Virginia Tech graduate students have been chosen as the inaugural members of the university's Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Date: Mar 25, 2015 -
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Brain School 2015 focuses on beginnings , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute to host third annual Brain School.
Date: Mar 10, 2015 -
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Going viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug , articleAt the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, three scientists are planning to create a virus capable of destroying brain cancer. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it isn’t hypothetical – the researchers were recently awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, part of the Center for Innovative Technology, to engineer a viral therapy.
Date: Jan 05, 2015 -
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The Internet was delivered to the masses; parallel computing is not far behind , articleDuring the past few years, Virginia Tech's Wu Feng http://www.cs.vt.edu/user/feng has built upon a National Science Foundation (NSF) / Microsoft grant from the "Computing in the Cloud" program, and synergistically complemented it with subsequent collaborative grants, including a $6 million award from the Air Force on "big computing" for mini-drones and a $1 million award from NSF and the National Institutes of Health on "big data" for the life sciences.
Date: Sep 03, 2014 -
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Virginia Tech welcomes first class of students in new, innovative doctoral program , articleDiverse backgrounds enrich Virginia Tech’s new interdisciplinary program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
Date: Sep 02, 2014 -
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Gene removal could have implications beyond plant science , article Date: Apr 16, 2014 -
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State Council of Higher Education for Virginia honors Wu Feng with Outstanding Faculty Award , articleThe State Council of Higher Education for Virginia names Wu Feng as a 2014 Outstanding Faculty Award winner.
Date: Jan 24, 2014 -
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Board of Visitors approves Faculty of Health Sciences , articleAt its quarterly meeting earlier this week, Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors approved a resolution to create a Faculty of Health Sciences.
Date: Nov 21, 2013
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