Beyond finger tapping: how a Wright Center K12 scholar is rethinking Parkinson’s testing
Supported by a CTSA-funded K12 award from the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science, occupational therapy researcher Brooke Dexheimer, Ph.D., O.T.D., is investigating how subtle differences in dominant and non-dominant hand function could lead to more sensitive clinical testing for Parkinson’s disease. During her clinical rotations as an occupational therapy student, Brooke Dexheimer, […]
VCU researchers launch ‘PITT Stop’ to help clinical investigators beat administrative bottlenecks
Supported by a $25,000 pilot award from the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science, the new PITT Stop training platform officially launches Oct. 21 to help health care investigators navigate complex administrative hurdles. When Richard K. Sterling, M.D., M.Sc., professor of hepatology and assistant dean of clinical research at the VCU School of […]
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 […]
