Wright Center Publishes 2025 Impact Report
The report, “Research Accelerated,” captures a year of momentum across the Wright Center’s research, training, and community partnerships — from workforce development to the fight against the opioid crisis.
The C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research is pleased to announce the publication of its 2025 Impact Report, Research Accelerated. The report highlights a year of momentum across the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science as faculty, staff, scholars, students, and community collaborators worked together to move discoveries closer to the patients and communities who need them.
“Our theme for 2025 was Impact, and looking back at the data from our Evaluation team, the evidence of your hard work is everywhere,” writes Wright Center Director F. Gerard “Gerry” Moeller, M.D., in the message that opens the report.
A few highlights by the numbers:
- $27.5M — the largest NIH grant in VCU history (the 2023 CTSA renewal that funds the Center’s work)
- $23M+ in extramural funding secured or under review by K Scholar alumni in 2025
- 1,271 clinical research studies supported by the OnCore team in 2025
- $82M in funding for active grants supported by the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database
- 164 bioinformatics projects supported in 2025
Beyond the metrics, Research Accelerated tells the stories behind the numbers: the fall 2025 debut of VCU’s new undergraduate minor in research ecosystems; the launch of The Wright Talk podcast for early-career researchers; the Center’s expanding collaboration with the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority; a new slate of Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Awards; and profiles of the scholars, trainees, and investigators driving translational science across the region.
Please click here to view the annual report.
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The projects described in this report were in part supported by CTSA award No. UM1TR004360 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent official views of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences or the National Institutes of Health.
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