Fralin Biomedical Research Institute faculty members earn promotions, tenure

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:20:00 -0400

Cancer prevention: Can future-focused thinking help smokers quit?

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0500

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.

New online tool tests how taxes shape sugar-sweetened drink purchases

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0400

Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC created the Experimental Beverage Marketplace to study how taxes affect consumers’ purchase of soft drinks, energy drinks, and other sugary beverages.

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute appoints interim directors for research centers focused on addiction recovery and health behaviors

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:24:00 -0400

A team of four researchers will continue to advance the extensive work underway at the Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research.

Researchers find flavor restrictions affect tobacco buyers differently depending on socioeconomic status

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:44:00 -0400

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.

From healthy development to cancer treatments, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists aim for impact

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:15:00 -0500

New Seale Innovation Fund projects fuel a broad spectrum of research focused on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, stress, brain development, and more.

Researchers link food insecurity, financial hardship during COVID-19 to trait associated with poor health choices

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:49:00 -0400

The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute study has implications for better understanding food choices and addictive disorders.

‘The real deal’: Students thrive and grow in summer hands-on research experiences

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0400

This was the seventh summer of programs aimed at engaging and training the next generation of scientists. This year, 34 students from colleges in Virginia, North Carolina, and as far away as California, and from five area high schools, participated in summer undergraduate research fellowship programs at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

State iTHRIV partnership awards $200,000 in pilot funds

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:23:00 -0500

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, has awarded teams of physicians, researchers, veterinarians, and data scientists at Virginia Tech, Carilion Clinic, and the University of Virginia $200,000 in pilot funding. The funds will be used across four multi-institutional research projects to accelerate health breakthroughs in the fields of pediatrics, prenatal care, and cancer treatment.

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expands Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 09:43:00 -0400

More than 30 undergraduate and high school students worked behind the curtain of biomedical research this summer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Medical student connects smoking cessation, COPD, and delay discounting

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:47:00 -0400

Fourth-year medical student Kenan Michaels researched whether smokers diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease within the past five years would be more likely to have quit smoking since their diagnosis if they had lower rates of delay discounting, or how a person values future outcomes. His hypothesis was that patients who didn’t mind waiting for a reward were more likely to quit smoking.

Researchers aim to improve diabetes management in rural and urban communities with low-cost intervention

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:39:00 -0500

Jeff Stein at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute has received a $990,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study the effects of applying a psychological treatment for addiction to help patients manage Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers receive grant to study misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:14:00 -0400

Researchers at Virginia Tech are looking into how social media misinformation influences people’s intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, especially those within the Appalachian region, with help from a grant funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Data and Decisions Destination Area.

Meet our Scientists: Dr. Chiu, Dr. DeLuca, Dr. LaConte, Dr. Robel, and Dr. Stein

The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s researchers have diverse backgrounds. Learn more about their research, hobbies, backgrounds, and why they became scientists in our 2021 weekly video series.

Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors selects projects to tackle lifestyle-related diseases

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:46:00 -0500

Collaborative teams of Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic investigators are exploring the consequences of destructive health behavior in people struggling with poor adherence to breast cancer treatment regimes, opioid dependence, and cardiovascular disease.

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists seek unfiltered truth about 'light' cigarettes

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:00:00 -0500

VTCRI scientists will focus on how ventilated filters on cigarettes, product packaging, and messaging have affected cigarette use, and also how alternative nicotine delivery systems — such as electronic cigarettes — can be used to modify smoking behavior.

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