-
Article ItemVirginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery supports drug and therapeutic development , article
The center supports areas ranging from cancer to neuroscience to obesity to infectious disease to agricultural insecticides.
Date: Apr 11, 2022 -
Article ItemResearcher receives three grants from the National Institutes of Health to combat mosquito-borne viruses , article
Nisha Duggal, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, received three R21 grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling $825,000 to combat the transmission of multiple mosquito-borne viruses, develop therapeutics, and predict future disease in humans.
Date: Mar 22, 2022 -
Article ItemGlycoMIP celebrates grand opening of national user facility , article
GlycoMIP, a new NSF Materials Innovation Platform, supports research on both natural and artificial glycomaterials through a unique national user facility with state-of-the-art instrumentation housed in the Fralin Life Sciences Institute at Virginia Tech and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia.
Date: Feb 22, 2022 -
Article ItemAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science honors X.J. Meng as Lifetime Fellow , article
Meng, University Distinguished Professor at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and professor of internal medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, is being honored for his paradigm-shifting discoveries of animal hepatitis E viruses leading to the recognition of human hepatitis E as a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from animals to human and between different animals species.
Date: Jan 26, 2022 -
Article ItemDennis Dean elected new member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine , article
This membership recognizes Dean's lifelong personal contributions to research, education, and outreach in the scientific community.
Date: Dec 01, 2021 -
Article ItemResearchers discover the first instance of living organisms producing elemental carbon , article
New research at Virginia Tech, the University of Bremen, and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology has revealed that two kinds of microorganisms are able to produce a form of elemental carbon.
Date: Nov 08, 2021 -
Article ItemCombating antibiotic resistance with data-driven surveillance , article
A team of Virginia Tech researchers was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant to provide graduate students with skills that are needed to develop and launch successful wastewater surveillance for public health monitoring and protection.
Date: Oct 29, 2021 -
Video ItemSWARM at the Moss Arts Center , video
A look at the SWARM exhibit at the Moss Arts Center by Kristin Rose and Jessica Zielske
Date: Nov 30, 2018