Here’s how VCU researchers are reviving the house call to treat teen obesity
Led by Melanie K. Bean, Ph.D.—co-lead of Resources and Services at VCU’s Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research—a $3.85M NIH trial is testing telehealth as a means to bring effective treatment for teen obesity into homes. This study leverages Wright Center expertise in its research design.
Multidisciplinary VCU Team Awarded CCTR Endowment Fund Grant to Investigate Accelerated Brain Aging
A multidisciplinary VCU research team has been awarded a multi-school CCTR Endowment Fund grant from the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research to investigate the root causes of accelerated brain aging. The project — “Investigating astrocytes as agents of accelerated brain aging from a neurodevelopmental perspective” — is led by […]
Ultrasounds, glowing molecules and the brain: a summer in VCU’s research labs
Through the Honors Summer Undergraduate Research Program, co-hosted by the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science and VCU Honors College, students from VCU, Old Dominion University and Virginia State University spend nine weeks immersed in scientific research. Madison Bivins didn’t expect to spend her summer studying ultrasound images of hip muscles. A rising […]
