Family medicine physician is sixth faculty member at VCU to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine
By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research Alex Krist, M.D., a professor of family medicine in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health. Krist, […]
CCTR Endowment Fund Yields Exciting New Research
VCU surgeon Sudha Jayaraman, M.D., and VCU School of Pharmacy assistant professor Dayanjan Wijesinghe, Ph.D., have collaborated on using mass spectrometry to analyze medications that are in trauma patients’ blood. With funding from the CCTR Endowment Fund, and other VCU sources, their objective was to assess the feasibility of using mass spectrometry in a clinical […]
Research Expo 2017
Come to the Research Expo and find out how the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research can help you! The sessions are divided into two tracks that will run concurrently. The Wright Center’s Lydia Klinger and Tim Aro will be presenting the following sessions that day. Come and check it out! Session Title: First […]
Digging deep into data
By: Krista Hutchins July 12, 2017 Hovering over a computer, VCU Data Science Lab Director, Timothy P. York, PhD, and Wright Center Bioinformatics Specialist, Aaron Wolen, PhD, scrutinize, analyze, and interpret the emerging and rapidly growing field of big data. Much of their day is spent digging deep into data in an effort to make […]
VCU Massey Cancer Center receives prestigious distinction
VCU Massey Cancer Center re-designated by the National Cancer Institute for its 42nd year. Massey was the first cancer center in Virginia to receive this prestigious distinction. Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center has earned renewal of its designation as a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center for demonstrating superior capabilities in multi-disciplinary basic, clinical and […]
NIH and FDA release clinical trials protocol template
NIH and FDA develop and release a clinical trials protocol template. NIH and FDA collaborated with the research community to develop a common Phase 2 and Phase 3 IND/IDE clinical trial protocol template. The goal is to support investigators and speed up FDA review of NIH clinical trials. The document is consistent with International […]
VCU joins the TriNetX Health Research Network
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 24, 2017 – Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has joined the TriNetX health research network, which is comprised of healthcare organizations representing over 84 million patients globally, biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) who are working together to improve protocol design, site selection, patient recruitment, and collaborative research across a range of […]
VCU Joins TriNetX Network – Demonstration and Training Session 3/14
The C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Wright CCTR) is proud to announce that VCU has joined the TriNetX network. The Wright CCTR, along with TriNetX, will be providing a researcher-oriented training session on Tuesday, March 14 to demonstrate how TriNetX can help VCU researchers in the following key areas: Attract […]
Antonio Abbate and Jennifer Economy Lead Presentations on Scientific Review Committee
Last week, the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Wright CCTR) sponsored a series of Brown Bag Lunch seminars on the new VCU Scientific Review Committee (SRC) which is set to begin reviewing research projects in September 2016. The presentations were led by Jennifer Economy, M.S.H.A., SRC executive director, and Antonio […]
RSVP for the Scientific Review Committee Brown Bag Seminars
The VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research is providing three opportunities to attend a SRC Brown Bag Lunch seminar with Dr. David Cifu to learn about the new VCU Scientific Review Committee. Please visit http://bit.ly/2auQXEf to register in advance.
