VCU’s Jordana Kron is searching for answers to a mystery disease
By Anne Dreyfuss C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research A disease that has no cause or cure, sarcoidosis affects people of all ages throughout the world. Once considered a rare disease, the inflammatory condition now affects about 40 in every 100,000 African Americans in the U.S. and about five in […]
Inaugural Virginia Clinical Research Conference inspires and strengthens the commonwealth’s clinical research enterprise
By Anne Dreyfuss C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research The ballroom inside the Hilton Hotel in downtown Richmond was standing room only on Friday morning, when more than 200 clinical research professionals from across the commonwealth gathered for the inaugural Virginia Clinical Research Conference. “At the end of every clinical […]
Let’s talk about sex: Gender differences in research and health care take center stage at annual Women’s Health Research Day
By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research No topic was off limits at Women’s Health Research Day on April 9, where more than 70 Virginia Commonwealth University faculty, students, staff and community members gathered to discuss how sex and gender differences impact bench-to-bedside research and clinical […]
Congratulations to our Top Docs
Five Wright Center clinician-scientists were recognized as “top docs” in Richmond magazine‘s annual listing of leading physicians in the Richmond region. The below-listed physicians were chosen by their peers and provide a wide range of care in multiple specialties at VCU Health. Congratulations to this year’s winners! Director F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., Addiction Medicine Associate […]
Q&A with Wright Center researcher Brian A. Taylor, Ph.D.
By Emi Endo VCU College of Engineering A medical imaging physicist, Brian A. Taylor, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the VCU Department of Biomedical Engineering and a researcher at the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research. 1. What are you working on right now? I’m working on innovative ways to […]
Meet the Team: Pam Dillon
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 […]