C. KENNETH AND DIANNE WRIGHT CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH VCU BLOG

VCU Health featured two VCU researchers, both serving in community engagement roles at the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, for October’s Global Diversity Awareness Month. “Diversity matters in health care because it drives innovation,” said Katherine Tossas, Ph.D., M.S., whose work is informed by bioinformatics and community-engaged research. Tossas, the director of catchment […]

The National Institutes of Health awarded the Wright Center a grant to support the center in joining a national health research project. The largest-of-its-kind database aims to enroll 1 million or more people from across the U.S. in order to advance health research for all. “We’re proud to contribute to this historic project,” said F. […]

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers can now tap into a national resource to further their study of COVID-19. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative, or N3C, led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), securely collects and organizes clinical and diagnostic data from patients across the country to create a dataset broad enough to engage in meaningful research […]

Emily Zimmerman, Ph.D., M.S., MPH, wrote the book on community engaged research – literally. Released in March, “Researching Health Together: Engaging Patients and Stakeholders, From Topic Identification to Policy Change” features a collection of experiences from researchers across the country, sharing how and why their projects are designed to engage the community. The Wright Center […]

The Wright Center has awarded three Endowment Fund grants to VCU faculty from departments across multiple schools at Virginia Commonwealth University. Caitlin Martin, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the VCU School of Medicine, was awarded funding for her project titled “Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) […]