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Article ItemForbes names graduate student at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to list of '30 under 30' to watch , article
Ubadah Sabbagh, a fifth-year student in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine and Health program, is included in Forbes Magazine’s 2020 list of 30 young innovators in science with potential to make it big.
Date: Dec 02, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech sharpens focus on students at Roanoke campus , article
Leanna Blevins, Virginia Tech’s assistant vice president for health sciences education and student affairs, has assumed an expanded role to support graduate students at the health sciences and technology campus in Roanoke.
Date: Nov 19, 2020 -
Article ItemThe show must go on: The Center for Communicating Science announces virtual format for annual Nutshell Games , article
Instead of presenting in front of a Moss Arts Center audience, this year’s Nutshell Games competition will be moving to a first-ever virtual format. You can watch 29 graduate student researchers present their research on Saturday, Nov. 7. Did we mention that they have only 90 seconds to present?
Date: Nov 03, 2020 -
Article ItemGraduate student receives highly competitive NIH award to fuse immunology and neuroscience research , article
Gabriela Carrillo, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health (TBMH) doctoral candidate, has been awarded a six-year $445,000 National Institutes of Health award that will fund her remaining TBMH predoctoral research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, as well as her postdoctoral research.
Date: Oct 21, 2020 -
Article ItemSCHEV approves new Ph.D. program in School of Neuroscience , article
By the time it is fully operational, the number of total students in the program, set to launch in fall 2021, will be about 24. The program requires a minimum of 96 credit hours of coursework and research.
Date: Jul 13, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech scientists developing new strategy to thwart Alzheimer’s , article
Supported 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 -
Article ItemScientists discover cellular structure of poorly understood visual brain region , article
The brain’s ventral lateral geniculate nucleus receives signals from the eye, but it is not associated with classical image-forming. In a new study, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC neuroscientists reveal newly identified brain cell subtypes unique to this region that form a striking layered formation.
Date: Jun 24, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech cancer researcher Carla Finkielstein to join Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , article
Finkielstein, 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 -
Article ItemAcclaimed neuroscientist to head Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC's Center for Neurobiology Research , article
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, a developmental neurobiologist and a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been named the new director of the institute’s Center for Neurobiology Research, according to Michael Friedlander, executive director of the research institute and Virginia Tech vice president for health sciences and technology.
Date: Jun 16, 2020 -
Article ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute doctoral candidate awarded NIH Fellowship to study role of virus in sudden cardiac death , article
A dose of adenovirus hits most people like a common cold – a cough, a fever, maybe a sore throat. But for an unfortunate few, the usually benign bug hacks the heart’s cellular electrical communication system and sometimes proves fatal.
Date: May 08, 2020 -
Article ItemNew study shows how common parasitic infection can cause seizures and psychiatric illness for some , article
Forty million Americans are infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. New research by scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC describes how brain circuits change as the parasite finds long-term shelter inside brain cells.
Date: Apr 01, 2020 -
Article ItemComSciCon returns to Virginia Tech , article
On Feb. 27 and 28, graduate students and communicators came together to strengthen their science communication abilities at the second annual ComSciCon–Virginia Tech.
Date: Mar 05, 2020 -
Article ItemDoctoral student named Society for Neuroscience Policy ambassador , article
Ubadah Sabbagh, a doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech’s translational biology, medicine, and health program who conducts research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been selected as one of 10 members of the Society for Neuroscience to participate in the Society’s annual Capitol Hill Day on Thursday.
Date: Mar 04, 2020 -
Article ItemStudy: Nanoparticles produced from burning coal result in damage to mice lungs, suggesting toxicity to humans , article
Virginia Tech scientists have discovered that incredibly small particles of an unusual and highly toxic titanium oxide found in coal smog and ash can cause lung damage in mice after a single exposure. The study also shows long-term damage occurring in just six weeks.
Date: Feb 04, 2020 -
Article ItemTBMH students awarded Research!America microgrant, launch science outreach podcast , article
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.
Date: Dec 19, 2019 -
Article ItemBiomedical, business, engineering teams set to dive into shark-tank style competition , article
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.
Date: Dec 05, 2019 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech professor receives $1.85 million NIH grant to study sepsis , article
Caroline Jones, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, received the grant to study the factors that underlie the decision-making processes that determine immune cell migration, differentiation, and activation in response to sepsis.
Date: Nov 11, 2019 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech announces expansive cancer research initiative , article
Virginia 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 -
Article ItemVeterinary college researchers aiming to develop therapeutic strategies for pregnant women with lupus , article
To help women with lupus experience healthy pregnancies and successful outcomes, a team of researchers in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine explored the possible role of gut microbiota in the link between pregnancy and the exacerbation of lupus.
Date: Sep 20, 2019 -
Article ItemRegional government forum reveals 'limitless potential' from Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic partnership , article
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.
Date: Sep 13, 2019
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John Pastor
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and the Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology
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Director of Communications,
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
lakelley@vtc.vt.edu or 540-526-2002