COVID-19 survivor finds hope and health at Community Memorial Hospital
“You’re not going to get anywhere with cures if you don’t have clinical trials. I do it because I might help many people down the road. I might help my daughter.” Rebecca Jennings shared her story about surviving COVID-19 at VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital. Jennings participated in a clinical trial led by Antonio Abbate, […]
To zoom or not to zoom: That is one question psychologists are asking
It’s not your imagination: you’re working longer hours and you have more meetings. At least, that’s what early research is showing since the COVID-19 pandemic sent many people home to work remotely. And like the virus, virtual offices don’t seem to be going away any time soon. Joseph Allen, Ph.D., a professor of industrial and […]
Raising the Standard of Treatment: Wright Center joins community conversation about clinical trials and COVID-19
Lauren Harris, M.S., M.Ed., the Wright Center’s hub research capacity administrator, joined experts at VCU and VCU Health today to engage the community in Virginia Commonwealth University’s role as a clinical and translational science hub. Harris offered participants an overview of the importance of clinical trials in human health research. “They really show researchers what […]
Massey and Wright Center developing next-generation model for cancer research training program
Faculty members at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research are expanding the curriculum for the Cancer and Molecular Medicine (CAMM) Ph.D. program at VCU to better meet the nation’s needs for the next generation of cancer scientists. Backed by a two-year, $324,000 R25 grant from […]
Wright Center scholar presents on nanomedicines
Wright Center scholar Guizhi “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D., presented to 35 peers across the country yesterday about his research into nanomedicines. Zhu has worked to develop experimental treatments that use nanoparticles or functional molecules to deliver drugs directly to lymph nodes and tumors for multiple modalities of tumor therapy. His research has implications for treatments across […]
Wright Center professor joins board of international organization
Deborah DiazGranados, Ph.D., the Wright Center’s director of evaluation and co-director of Team Science, has been voted in as a board member of the International Network for the Science of Team Science, a nonprofit for researchers, scholars, policymakers and institutional leaders engaged in enhancing and fostering team science. The network held a virtual four-day conference […]
Zero to Sixty: The Wright Center’s rapid response to COVID-19
The Wright Center has been on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 since March. As Virginia Commonwealth University’s home for interdisciplinary human health research, the center is uniquely positioned to act as a bridge between the physicians, faculty, researchers and staff that are engaged in fighting the pandemic on multiple fronts. And it’s […]
Wright Center Welcomes Three VCU Faculty to its Leadership Team
Three VCU faculty joined the leadership team of the Wright Center – official today. They bring a breadth of expertise and experience to the center’s mission of providing the infrastructure and resources that promote interdisciplinary human health research at VCU. Robert Winn, M.D., who became director of VCU’s Massey Cancer Center in December, joins the […]
Wright Center Scholar Presents at NIH’s National Library of Medicine
Amy Olex, senior bioinformatics specialist at the Wright Center, presented her research to top scientists and leadership of the National Institute of Health on Feb. 20 at the institute’s library in Bethesda. Olex introduced NIH researchers to her three clinical natural language processing (NLP) projects: one identifying opioid overdoses in the emergency department, a second […]
Ph.D. student receives grant to attend AMIA Symposium
An earlier version of this story was published by VCU Engineering. Computer science doctoral candidate Amy Olex received a travel grant to attend the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium held in November in Washington, D.C. This event is considered the foremost symposium for the science and practice of biomedical informatics in the […]
