MCV Foundation’s NEXT magazine features Wright Center researchers, studies
The latest issue of MCV Foundation’s NEXT magazine is out, and the Wright Center plays a big role. The issue focuses on COVID-19 research and highlights the innovation and resourcefulness shown by VCU researchers, including many from the Wright Center and those funded by center grants.
Director F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., and the Wright Center frame the lead story, “The Great Shake Up: How COVID-19 upended and refocused research at VCU Health.”
“Our researchers and administrators really stepped up to the plate in every way,” Moeller told NEXT. “It’s not a scenario that individual researchers can really plan for, but they have really managed it well.”
Also featured in that story are:
- John Ryan, Ph.D., a professor of biology who serves on the Wright Center’s Operations Committee
- Somaya Albhaisi, M.D., whose COVID-19 registry is funded in part by the Wright Center
- Translational Scholar Caitlin Martin, M.D.
Other Wright Center leaders and researchers featured in stories include:
- Arun Sanyal’s, M.D., in “Remdesivir: Establishing a Standard of Care for COVID-19”
- Antonio Abbate, M.D., Ph.D., and Benjamin Van Tassell, Pharm.D., in “Calming the Cytokine Storm of COVID-19”
- VCU Massey Cancer Center Director Robert Winn, M.D., in “Access & Equity: Combating Health Disparities and COVID-19 through Community Engagement”
- KL2 Scholar Julian Zhu, Ph.D., in “Big Things in Small Packages”
- Stephen Kates, M.D., in “Amid Crisis, Inventing Solutions”
- Alpha “Barry” Fowler III, M.D., in “Follow up: Applying Previous Research to the Current Crisis”
And Kathy White, who serves on the COVID-19 Clinical Trials Oversight Committee, shared her experience surviving COVID-19 and participating in a clinical trial led by Abbate.