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        <description><![CDATA[ The study examined relationships among physical activity, the physical demands of activity, and fatigue in children with cerebral palsy and Down syndrome. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia’s leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The next generation of medicine won’t be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops — and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. ]]></description>
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        <title>Fralin Biomedical Research Institute faculty members earn promotions,  tenure</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An American Heart Association fellowship recognizes Dilruba Yeasmen’s research into an essential signal control that has the potential to inhibit lung scarring. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Viviana Hernández-Castañón, a postdoctoral associate at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will use a fellowship from the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation to investigate brain activity changes associated with dystonia. ]]></description>
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        <title>Architects of modern computational neuroscience measure the future of the field</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute neuroscientist is heading to Braitenberg 100 at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, joining the researchers who helped build modern computational neuroscience at a landmark symposium.  ]]></description>
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        <title> ‘A cautionary tale’: Study challenges assumption about brain activity in movement disorders</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meike van der Heijden found that studying activity in Purkinje cells in the cerebellum is not a reliable substitute for understanding activity in connected but less accessible deep cerebellar nuclei cells.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Myocarditis Foundation award supports Chelsea Phillips’ research on cardiac infection and arrhythmia at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech, Children’s National create pediatric AI innovation hub to speed research, care</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and data scientists to speed the development of artificial intelligence technologies designed specifically for children. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Physician-scientist R. Sanders Williams of Duke University has worked across academia and industry exploring key questions in exercise medicine. The National Academy of Medicine member will deliver the season’s final Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC on Thursday,  June 4. ]]></description>
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        <title>International scientists to assemble in Roanoke to unlock the medicine of exercise</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ More than 40 speakers and 250 attendees are expected for the 20th International Biochemistry of Exercise Conference, hosted in Roanoke by Virginia Tech and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. ]]></description>
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        <title>Scientists uncover protein that could help failing hearts recover</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The study brings together researchers from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and clinical collaborators at the University of Utah to find out why some heart patients have better recoveries.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alyssa Lyon, a doctoral candidate in the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program, will explore how neuromodulation changes communication between neurons in ataxia, a condition that affects muscle coordination and balance. ]]></description>
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        <title>‘The right patchwork’: New studies examine tobacco regulation</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Three studies led by addiction researcher Roberta Freitas-Lemos examine approaches to reducing tobacco use, including tax policies and menthol bans.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Scientists are engineering viruses to carry a cancer-killing molecule directly to brain tumors — a novel approach to treating glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Samar Antar, a postdoctoral associate with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will use the Career Development Award to identify new therapeutic targets for the progressive, irreversible lung disease. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The award from the National Institutes of Health will support Mary Elizabeth Baugh ’09, M.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’18 and her research into better understanding how changes in brain activity translate into how people make choices about what to eat.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers identified a new therapeutic strategy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, that could move beyond delaying the disease to reversing lung scarring. ]]></description>
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        <title>Scientists offer new explanation for the rise in heart disease risk after menopause</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers say the increased risk of cardiovascular disease after menopause may stem not only from declining hormone levels, but also from how those changes influence gene activity. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Michael Halassa is exploring intricate connections in the brain at the new Virginia Tech Patient Research Center at VTC, where he will conduct patient-based research in a clinical setting. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, a leading neuroscientist with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will deliver a public lecture at Roanoke College this week exploring how the human brain is built and what happens when that process goes awry. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Xuansong Mao of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will use a Lyerly Postdoctoral Excellence Award to research the role of exercise in Alzheimer’s, metabolic conditions, and age-related cognitive decline. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Gabriel Isaac was awarded a fellowship to support his doctoral research toward putting low-intensity focused ultrasound into clinical practice. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers, practitioners, and community leaders gather in Roanoke to share strategies and strengthen partnerships supporting recovery across Appalachia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ People who smoke menthol cigarettes face higher mortality rates than non-menthol smokers. Researcher Carol Bovo will use a Postdoctoral Excellence Award to study the factors that may inform the decision of whether to quit following a regulatory menthol ban. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Addiction researcher Allison Tegge and colleagues have proposed a new way to calculate recovery that recognizes incremental improvements and encourages people with multiple dependencies to keep going. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cancer researchers are making strides in efforts to use genetic profiles to develop a better understanding of how people respond to treatment for a rare but aggressive blood cancer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Academy of Inventors currently counts 945 senior members who collectively hold more than 11,000 U.S. patents — intellectual property that strengthens competitiveness, attracts private-sector partnership, and converts research into tangible economic and societal value. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The public is invited to explore the body’s most complex organ on March 9 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Dulguun Myagmarsuren received the Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship for her work examining why some patients experience severe reactions to a chemotherapy drug widely used to treat several cancers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The study, led by Fralin Biomedical Research Institute exercise medicine scientist Zhen Yan, identified an important cell signaling mechanism that could be a target for treating diabetes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new study by exercise medicine scientist Sarah Lessard found that feeding mice with hyperglycemia a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet lowered their blood sugar and improved their bodies’ response to exercise. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cancer researcher Qi Ye investigates how brain tumors can hijack other cell systems to promote their own progression. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A James R. Carter Sr. Memorial Award is supporting doctoral student Blakely Lockhart as she studies how maternal health and infant nutrition shape early neurodevelopment. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With support from a Ray A. Gaskins graduate fellowship, Md Ruhul Amin is exploring the therapeutic potential of milk-derived exosomes in treating heart attacks and tissue damage. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Physician and former health executive Vivian Lee will deliver the next Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Ray A. Gaskins graduate fellowship will support translational biology, medicine, and health doctoral candidate Caleb Mensah in investigating new cancer treatments. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ National Academy of Sciences member Holly Ingraham will explain how studying female physiology beyond reproduction is reshaping understanding of metabolism, brain signaling, and disease risk at the next Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture.. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Neurobiologist Matthew Weston explains what happens in the brain during seizures and how his lab is researching their genetic roots to help develop new treatments for children.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jeff Stein of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute has been awarded a new grant that will allow his lab to test a low-cost intervention to help people, particularly those in rural areas, stop smoking. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ First-year translational biology, medicine, and health graduate students presented during the annual Health Sciences and Technology Hokie Pitch competition. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new eNeuro study from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute reveals how neurons organize genetic messages that support learning and memory — and what that means for medical conditions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Brittany Howell is being recognized for her efforts to ensure mothers and infants from rural Virginia are represented in child development studies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Read Montague of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will share how his group’s pioneering technology measures the release of dopamine, serotonin, and other neurochemicals in the living human brain.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Nanotechnology, the research shows, could reprogram the immune system and help overcome tumors’ defenses, addressing the limitations of current immunotherapies, particularly in treating solid tumors. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Christopher Hourigan, a physician-scientist, is leading nationwide efforts to develop advanced techniques to better identify residual disease and tailor treatment for each patient with acute myeloid leukemia, a highly fatal blood cancer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cancer researcher Jennifer Munson describes a novel method for identifying where glioblastoma is likely to recur based on fluid moving through and near the tumor. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With support from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award Fund, scientists Sharon Swanger and Shannon Farris will investigate the chemical culprits that contribute to the breakdown of memory circuits. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Graduate student Blakely Lockhart has been named an Early Career Policy Ambassador by the Society for Neuroscience, the world’s largest organization of brain and nervous system researchers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Mason Wheeler, a doctoral candidate in the Pfleger Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, earned a prestigious Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Vera Gorbunova will share groundbreaking research on the biological mechanisms of aging at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s next Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kathleen Mulvaney, assistant professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Cancer Research Center — D.C., will investigate the basic biology of PRMT5, an enzyme that can be found in 15 percent of human cancers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Physician scientists and researchers from Children’s National Hospital and Virginia Tech will increase efforts to harness artificial intelligence to help children who are struggling with medical conditions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Cheng-Chia “Fred” Wu will explore a new approach to brain tumor drug delivery. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cheng-Chia &#34;Fred&#34; Wu joins forces with Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Children’s National Brain Tumor Institute to help children with cancer.     ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Building on a decade of growth, the interdisciplinary research program prepares graduates for impactful careers in a dynamic biomedical landscape. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An accomplished biomedical engineer who studies the biophysical setting of brain cancer has been named director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s Cancer Research Center in Roanoke ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Public policies intended to reduce harm might perpetuate health disparities in cigarette smoking, the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., a study finds. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Roberta Freitas-Lemos wants to provide policymakers with research-informed strategies to influence health behavior and lower cancer rates related to tobacco, one of the world’s biggest public health threats. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Christopher Hourigan, director of the Cancer Research Center – D.C., has been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a historic membership for a faculty member of Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Child and maternal health experts shared the challenge of providing wraparound care and extended research during a panel discussion on women’s health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A National Institutes of Health senior investigator who studies and treats blood cancer, Christopher Hourigan is joining Virginia Tech to lead cancer research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Washington, D.C. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists challenge traditional assumptions and open a new window to help people with cardiac infections. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The spring season of the lecture series, which begins Jan. 12, features 21 experts sharing leading discoveries at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute sites in Roanoke and Washington, D.C. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a first for Virginia Tech, Katelyn Stebbins received a competitive National Institutes of Health F30 award to fund her remaining neurobiology doctoral program and medical degree. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Graduate students present innovative solutions in respiratory care, pediatric heart interventions, and neurological disorder monitoring at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute&#39;s event. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new Postdoctoral Excellence Award from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will help fuel Samar Antar’s research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers will explore the risk of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infections in wildlife communities and how those risks could affect humans. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jason Raymond has worked with focused ultrasound since the technology was just being developed. Now he’s joined Virginia Tech to help boost its already recognized work in the field.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alumni and friends of Virginia Tech join university leaders and guests to celebrate the launch of Virginia Tech Advantage, kick off a $500 million fundraising effort for the initiative, and recognize a $10 million gift for student scholarships. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ J. Marshall Shepherd, former NASA scientist and skilled science communicator, will explore the complex interplay between climate change data, public communication, and policy decision-making in a public lecture Oct. 19 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Roberta Freitas-Lemos of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute received a career development grant to examine socioeconomic cancer disparities of tobacco policy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientist joins colleagues from three continents in calling for a global rethink of food choices as a way to improve human health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The institute’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory will lead efforts to provide genomic sequencing to help decrease spread of the virus that can cause liver damage. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute study has implications for better understanding food choices and addictive disorders. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s International Quit &amp; Recovery Registry has become a rich network to study success in quitting alcohol, tobacco, and other substances.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC announced its 14th annual Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series, which showcases health innovators and thought leaders. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute launches the 12th season of the Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series on Sept. 8. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The ambitious national HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study seeks to better understand what influences brain development from birth through age 10. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine alumnus and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute inventor create a tool to analyze patenting efficiency as a metric for moving health discoveries from lab bench to patient bedside. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With funding from Virginia Catalyst, also known as the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp., Virginia Tech is engaged in three collaborative bioscience projects to address unmet health care needs in Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Zach Hutelin, a doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech&#39;s Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue a new line of research into the health impact of ultra-processed foods. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health graduate program will pursue impactful health science careers after completing their degrees. ]]></description>
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