Do you know what your brain knows?
Stephen LaConte is researching whether the brain can neurally recognize emotion as part of a larger research project to develop a facial emotion recognition assistant for people with an autism spectrum...
View ArticleGoing viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug
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...
View ArticleScientists earn grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists were awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health to study optic nerve hypoplasia, the leading cause of childhood blindness. The optic nerve...
View ArticleScientist’s dogma-challenging work recognized with prestigious grant
Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently named a 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator. Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech...
View ArticleScientist receives research grant to study underpinnings of hard-to-treat,...
Deborah Kelly, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes...
View ArticleUVA, Virginia Tech Carilion partner to fund leading-edge, cross-university...
The University of Virginia-Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Collaboration today announced more than a half million dollars in grant funding will be awarded to nine research teams to tackle...
View ArticleNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awards $2.1 million to VTCRI scientist
Steven Poelzing, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes...
View ArticleVTCRI summer undergraduate neuroscience research federally funded for five...
A summer pilot program for undergraduate neuroscience research at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute proved so successful that National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, of the...
View ArticleTBMH graduate students land elusive National Institutes of Health fellowships
Two translational biology, medicine, and health (TBMH) graduate students at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have won National Institutes of Health research fellowships aimed at protecting...
View ArticleFralin Biomedical Research Institute neuroscientist awarded NIH grant to...
Sharon Swanger, an assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s center for neurobiology research, was recently awarded a $1.7 million grant through the National Institute of...
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