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Video Item2024 Relay For Life at Virginia Tech , video
Relay For Life at Virginia Tech is a community-wide, campus-based movement dedicated to eliminating cancer by living out the University's motto, "Ut Prosim" (That I May Serve) as the organization strives to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society.
Date: Apr 22, 2024 -
Article ItemResearchers develop a new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer , article
Researchers in the College of Engineering explore a cancer immunotherapy treatment that involves activating the immune cells in the body and reprogramming them to attack and destroy cancer cells. This therapeutic method frequently uses cytokines, small protein molecules that act as intercellular biochemical messengers and are released by the body's immune cells to coordinate their response.
Date: Apr 19, 2024 -
Article ItemNew research aims to use AI to make cancer diagnostics for pets more available and affordable , article
Ph.D. student Christina Pacholec will use artificial intelligence to analyze thousands of cytological images in an effort to identify lymphoma in dogs more quickly and less invasively.
Date: Mar 12, 2024 -
Article ItemMonet Roberts receives inaugural Henrietta Lacks Legacy award , article
Roberts, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, is honored during Black History Month for her contributions to research and community.
Date: Feb 27, 2024 -
Video ItemHistotripsy lab creates meaningful sound for local artist , video
Katherine Nies came to campus to record the unique sounds from Eli Vlaisavljevich's Therapeutic Ultrasound and Non-Invasive Therapies Laboratory. Nies along with her Producer Orion Redwolf are using the recordings on her new song "Sweet Blue". The song was written about her brother Ryan, who passed away from cancer, and the recording took place on what would have been his 40th birthday.
Date: Feb 22, 2024 -
Article ItemData visualization aids Virginia Tech cancer researcher’s quest for better brain tumor treatment , article
Jennifer Munson, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, shared her data on fluid flow in brain tumors with Virginia Tech’s Visionarium, which created 3D visualizations that allow new insights by Munson and her team.
Date: Feb 09, 2024 -
Article Item2023 marks a year of firsts for Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program , article
The interdisciplinary program saw its first student assigned full-time to a Fralin Biomedical Research Institute lab in Washington, D.C., its first students from Nepal and Ghana in an internationally diverse incoming cohort, and its first student to be awarded a prestigious grant for future physician-scientists.
Date: Dec 15, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech faculty inducted as Biomedical Engineering Society fellows , article
Fellows are nominated by their peers and selected by a panel based on their professional achievements and contributions to the biomedical engineering community.
Date: Dec 06, 2023 -
Article ItemOral cancer clinical trial offers hope to dogs and their owners , article
Bambi, a border collie, is enrolled in a clinical trial at the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center in Roanoke. In the clinical trial, veterinary radiation oncologist Ilektra Athanasiadi aims to evaluate the safety and feasibility of treating oral cancers with a device that delivers chemotherapy directly to the tumor.
Date: Nov 14, 2023 -
Article ItemPioneering histotripsy device receives FDA clearance to treat liver cancer , article
The cutting-edge medical device and its technology were developed in part by Kendall and Laura Hendrick Junior Faculty Fellow Eli Vlaisavljevich.
Date: Nov 13, 2023 -
Article ItemNew cancer drug shows promise in targeting genetic weakness in tumors, Virginia Tech expert says , article
In an invited review article in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Kathleen Mulvaney, assistant professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, talks about the potential of a new drug that has shown early promise in clinical trials for solid tumors by killing cancer cells that lack specific genes.
Date: Nov 01, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech and Weizmann Institute of Science tackle cell migration on fibers , article
Amrinder Nain has established international research partnerships for unique investigations in cellular movement. As his team looks at the coiling movement of cells, he continues to champion globally connected labs.
Date: Oct 11, 2023 -
Article ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute researchers take on public health challenge of hepatitis C , article
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.
Date: Oct 09, 2023 -
Article ItemHenrietta Lacks statues unveiled where her legacy thrives , article
Mirroring this week’s statue dedication ceremony at Lacks Plaza in Roanoke, small-scale statues of the woman whose ‘immortal’ cells changed the world of medical research were dedicated at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and Carilion Clinic.
Date: Oct 05, 2023 -
Article ItemCarla Finkielstein named Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow , article
A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2005, Finkielstein currently serves as the associate director of research of the Academy of Integrated Science in the College of Science and as interim co-director of the Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance.
Date: Sep 29, 2023 -
Video ItemLandmark $50 million gift to dramatically expand health sciences research at Virginia Tech , video
The Richmond, Virginia-based Red Gates Foundation recently committed $50 million to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to accelerate health sciences research at Virginia Tech. The gift is among the largest ever made to the university. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/09/fbri-gift.html
Date: Sep 12, 2023 -
Article ItemLandmark $50 million gift to dramatically expand health sciences research at Virginia Tech , article
The Richmond-based Red Gates Foundation committed $50 million to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to accelerate health sciences research at Virginia Tech. The gift is among the largest ever made to the university.
Date: Sep 12, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech outlines ambitious strategy to spearhead cancer research and elevate university's global standing , article
The university is mustering its scientists and engineers behind a new strategy to help families who are struggling with cancer, a disease that occurs in almost 2 million people and claims more than 600,000 lives annually in the United States.
Date: Aug 29, 2023 -
Article ItemHelen the cane corso helps humans and animals through osteosarcoma clinical trial , article
Helen is an 8½-year old gentle giant who’s fighting osteosarcoma and, through participation in a clinical trial through the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center, is helping develop a new cancer treatment.
Date: Aug 01, 2023 -
Article ItemNain lab partners with researchers in Japan and Israel to put cancer cells on a tightrope , article
An international research group led by Virginia Tech Professor Amrinder Nain and Professor Shiro Suetsugu of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology has uncovered new findings that explain how cancer cells adhere to their environment.
Date: Jun 22, 2023
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