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How a small NIH pilot at VCU helped launch a precision medicine company
A seed grant through the Wright Center offered crucial support for TACIT — an AI tool for reading human tissue cell by cell — and catalyzed a spinout that has since expanded to build virtual tissues for precision medicine. The human body is not flat. It is a crowded, three-dimensional world, built from trillions of […]
Why don’t pain treatments work? Naomi Carter hopes to find out
The VCU M.D.-Ph.D. student has advanced from the Wright Center’s T32 training grant to her own NIH fellowship, developing new ways to measure pain that could help close the gap between the lab and the clinic. Naomi Carter has a mission, and she’ll tell you exactly what it is. “My mission is to improve how […]