One award, two schools: Wright Center awards multi-school Endowment Fund grant
The Wright Center has awarded a collaborative research team of two professors, one from the VCU School of Medicine and one from the VCU School of Pharmacy, an Endowment Fund grant for pilot research. Qun Chen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at the School of Medicine’s Internal Medicine Department, and Shijun Zhang, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry […]
Raising the Standard of Treatment: Wright Center joins community conversation about clinical trials and COVID-19
Lauren Harris, M.S., M.Ed., the Wright Center’s hub research capacity administrator, joined experts at VCU and VCU Health today to engage the community in Virginia Commonwealth University’s role as a clinical and translational science hub. Harris offered participants an overview of the importance of clinical trials in human health research. “They really show researchers what […]
Wright Center COVID trials expanded with the help of medical language services
adapted from a VCU Health news story Clara Dutari is bilingual, interpreting for Spanish-speaking patients at VCU Health. But she doesn’t just convert words, like a Spanish-English dictionary. She provides context, nuance and intuition to improve communication. One of six interpreters and translators at VCU Medical Center, Dutari sometimes sees patients nodding as their doctor […]
Wright Center graduate wins VCU’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent Wright Center Ph.D. graduate Tia Turner has won VCU’s 2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Life Sciences. Turner received a National Cancer Institute grant to fund her research aimed at uncovering novel drug combinations to treat triple-negative breast cancer last year. She graduated from the Ph.D. program in May after defending her award-winning dissertation and […]
Massey and Wright Center developing next-generation model for cancer research training program
Faculty members at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research are expanding the curriculum for the Cancer and Molecular Medicine (CAMM) Ph.D. program at VCU to better meet the nation’s needs for the next generation of cancer scientists. Backed by a two-year, $324,000 R25 grant from […]
