C. KENNETH AND DIANNE WRIGHT CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH VCU BLOG

The five-year training award, a complementary grant to VCU’s $27.5 million Clinical and Translational Science Award, will support postdoctoral fellows who will work with federal healthcare datasets covering millions of veterans, service members and civilians. Virginia Commonwealth University and the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System have received a five-year T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

A three-year appointment to NCURA places VCU expertise into the national network that trains research administrators across the country. Elizabeth Fortune, MBA, administrative director of VCU’s C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, has been appointed to the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Traveling Workshop Faculty for a three-year […]

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 […]

VCU’s research-dedicated MRI facility returns from a comprehensive renovation with a new Philips MR7700 — and capabilities that open new frontiers for investigators across the university. When a heavy crane appeared on East Cary Street in January, hoisting equipment above the roofline of a 3-story office building in downtown Richmond, it marked the beginning of […]

Every year on May 20, the global research community observes International Clinical Trials Day, commemorating the date in 1747 when Scottish physician James Lind conducted what is widely recognized as the first controlled clinical trial — a systematic test of scurvy treatments aboard a British naval vessel. This year, the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright […]

After 12 years, 57 publications, and a hand in securing millions in research funding, Amy Olex, Ph.D., is leaving the Wright Center — but not VCU. Her bioinformatics pipelines powered landmark cancer research, her COVID data work shaped health policy across six countries, and her teaching, from the "Bioinformatics 101" seminar series to a graduate course still running today, brought hundreds of researchers into the fold. "I don't know of anywhere else where I would have been able to get all of that experience in one job," she says. "The Wright Center really put me in a unique position."

Two graduate students from the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research were among the top honorees at the 20th Annual Women’s Health Research Day. The event, hosted by the VCU Institute for Women’s Health on April 28, 2026, centered on the theme “Midlife Matters: Integrating Menopause Research, Innovation, and […]