Job Opportunity Alert: Rising Scholar
The VCU School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine has a unique opportunity for early-career physician-scientists who are interested in receiving dedicated training in clinical and translational research, while progressing in their academic career. The successful candidate must be a physician who is board certified or board eligible in internal medicine. The position will be […]
Meet the Team: Bill Cramer
At the Wright Center, we seek to advance science and foster partnerships that accelerate translational research for the betterment of human health. Our team members come to work every day ready to transform laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, engage communities in clinical research and train a new generation of clinical and translational scholars, all […]
There are no targeted drugs to treat triple-negative breast cancer. A VCU student aims to fix that.
By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research More than 268,000 people will receive a breast cancer diagnosis in 2019. Of them, 20 percent will learn they have triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that tests negative for the three most common receptors known to […]
VCU researchers participate in a multi-center study to determine the best strategy to improve survival from cardiac arrest
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, along with several other locations throughout the United States, will be performing a research study to determine which of two standard strategies of care after a cardiac arrest produces better outcomes. The study, called the ACCESS Clinical Trial, will include adults who are having a cardiac arrest and have been […]
Clinician-scientist finds a balance between career and family
By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research As a clinician-scientist, Sinem Esra Sahingur, D.D.S., Ph.D., teaches at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry, conducts research in the laboratory she manages in the school’s Department of Periodontics and the Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, and sees patients at VCU dental clinics. “Balancing is […]