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Rare Disease Day brings worldwide attention to more than 7,000 rare diseases , articleVirginia Tech research into rare diseases — those that individually affect 200,000 or fewer but collectively touch 1 in 10 people in the U.S. — provides hope in identifying, treating, and supporting patients.
Date: Feb 28, 2024 -
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From healthy development to cancer treatments, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists aim for impact , articleNew Seale Innovation Fund projects fuel a broad spectrum of research focused on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, stress, brain development, and more.
Date: Jan 29, 2024 -
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Common challenge, different strategies: Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance gathers broad mix of researchers and clinicians , articleThe second annual Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance retreat, hosted this year on the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus, brought together scientists and physicians on the leading edge of developing innovative therapy types, fresh biological targets, and new technologies to take on cancer.
Date: Jun 21, 2023 -
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Joining forces: Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance scientists to share ideas, innovations , articleFor its second annual retreat, the Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance is broadening its reach and opportunities for collaboration and innovation. The 2023 event will take place May 24 and May 25 in Washington, D.C., at the Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus.
Date: May 23, 2023 -
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Philanthropy supports pilot projects to take on health challenges such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stress, and chronic pain , articleGiving Day contributions to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have double the impact, unlocking $20,000 to the Seale Innovation Fund to accelerate innovation
Date: Feb 15, 2023 -
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Three translational biology, medicine, and health graduate students awarded American Heart Association fellowships , articleThe awards are intended to enhance the research and clinical training of promising students seeking careers as scientists, physician-scientists, or clinician scientists interested in improving global cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and brain health.
Date: Jan 11, 2023 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expands Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program , articleMore than 30 undergraduate and high school students worked behind the curtain of biomedical research this summer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Aug 16, 2022 -
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Samy Lamouille recognized as Research Mentor of the Year at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine , articleStudents repeatedly describe Lamouille as a mentor who empowers them to independently seek answers to research questions. He will receive the award at this year’s Medical Student Research Symposium, which is set for March 25 beginning at noon at the school.
Date: Mar 22, 2022 -
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Medical student researches elusive path to brain cancer treatment at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , articleNatalia Sutherland, a fourth-year student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, has spent three years searching for a way to increase the effectiveness of treatment for the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer in adults: glioblastoma multiforme.
Date: Mar 07, 2022 -
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Rare disease research gives families hope, ‘vital’ to advancing medicine , articleRare diseases afflict 300 million people worldwide. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC researchers are bridging a gap in scientific knowledge by studying some of the diseases that together add up to a formidable public health challenge. Feb. 28 marks the 14th international Rare Disease Day.
Date: Feb 28, 2022 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute biotech spin-out raises additional $305,000 in investments , articleWith this wave of new grants and investments, Acomhal Research Inc. is nearing a million dollars in total funding toward development of a new therapeutic to fight drug-resistant cancers such as glioblastoma multiforme and metastatic disease including triple negative breast cancer.
Date: Dec 20, 2021 -
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Dual degree program and NIH grant allow medical student to pursue doctorate before graduation , articleKenneth 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.
Date: Oct 20, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute biotech spin-off seeks potential breast cancer treatment , articleRoanoke-based cancer research startup, Acomhal Research Inc., secured a $399,878 Small Business Technology Transfer grant to determine if a molecule that stalls the spread of invasive brain cancer stem cells can help treat aggressive forms of breast cancer.
Date: Jul 28, 2020 -
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VTCRI scientists identify novel cellular mechanism that can lead to cancer metastasis , articleScientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have added a new dimension to the understanding of how cells alter their communication with one another during development, wound healing, and the spread of cancer.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech biomedical spinoff cited for innovation by national university associations , articleAcomhal Research Inc., formed to fight a deadly type of brain cancer, is being recognized this week by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Association of American Universities.
Date: Nov 13, 2017 -
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![Rob Gourdie, Samy Lamouille, Harald Sontheimer, and Zhi Sheng [from left] have established research programs into the type of cancer recently diagnosed in U.S. Sen John McCain.](/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2017/07/glioblastoma-vtcri-0724/_jcr_content/article-image.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute teams converge on strategies to defeat McCain’s form of brain cancer , articleResearch teams at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute from three colleges — Engineering, Science, and Veterinary Medicine — are developing new approaches to treat glioblastoma, the aggressive form of brain cancer recently diagnosed in U.S. Sen. John McCain.
Date: Jul 24, 2017 -
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Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients , articleSometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment. Rob Gourdie, the director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s Center for Heart and Regenerative Medicine Research, uses "intrapreneurship" to translate laboratory breakthroughs into medical treatments.
Date: May 23, 2017 -
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UVA, Virginia Tech Carilion partner to fund cross-university neuroscience research , articleThe University of Virginia-Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Collaboration have announced more than a half million dollars in grant funding will be awarded to nine research teams to tackle pressing problems in brain development and function in health and disease.
Date: Dec 11, 2016 -
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Researchers find way to make resistant brain cancer cells sensitive to treatment , articleScientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and clinicians from Carilion Clinic have discovered how to sensitize drug-resistant human glioblastoma cells to chemotherapy.
Date: Nov 16, 2015 -
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Going viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug , article
At 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