After Oscar Alcoreza was named a fellow in the Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellows program for a year for his research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute while he was in medical school, he decided to spend three additional years in the TBMH program.
Kenneth Young is pausing his studies the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine to pursue a doctorate through Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program, with his first year of research funded by a National Institutes of Health Diversity Supplement grant.
The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will welcome 49 new students on Monday, July 25. The Class of 2025 was selected from more than 6,400 applicants.
Two medical students who graduated in May helped identify the need for and the development of a proposed elective on substance use disorder during pregnancy.
The Board of Visitors approved a new department name at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, transitioning the Department of Interprofessionalism to the Department of Health Care Innovation and Implementation Science.