CCTR’s Fall Brown Bag Lunch Series Kicks Off Aug. 18
The VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Wright CCTR) will host the first of its new fall Brown Bag Lunch seminars on Thursday, Aug. 18. Antonio Abbate, M.D., Ph.D., associate chair of the Scientific Review Committee (SRC), medical director for the CCTR’s Clinical Research Services Center, and vice-chairman of the Division of Cardiology […]
Poster Opportunity at Johns Hopkins Research Participant Recruitment & Retention Conference
The VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Wright CCTR) encourages the VCU community to share news of their successful research and recruitment endeavors by taking advantage of a poster display opportunity at the upcoming Johns Hopkins ICTR conference titled, “Research Participant Recruitment & Retention: What is working across the nation?“ Share […]
Registration Open for Community Engagement Institute 2016
Each year, the VCU Division of Community Engagement along with the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) hosts an annual Community Engagement Institute. The event is free, but seats are limited. Be sure to register by Saturday, April 30. Visit rampages.us/CEInstitute to learn more.
VCU Faculty Make the Case for Authentic Engagement of Community in Research
Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., director of the VCU Center on Society and Health and co-director of the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research’s (CCTR) Community Engagement Core, collaborated with his team to publish an article on “authentic” engagement in the April 2016 theme issue of Health Affairs focused on patients’ use of evidence. […]
Dr. Youngmi Kim Presents on Anti-Poverty Policies and Programs
The C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) at VCU recently held a new Discovery Dialogues seminar at the Main Hospital’s Learning Center. Youngmi Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor for the VCU School of Social Work, led the presentation titled, “Discovering Innovative Anti-Poverty Policies and Programs.” “The United States is one of the […]
CCTR to Fund Four Undergraduate Research Fellowship Awards
The VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) is proud to announce that it will fund four undergraduate research fellowship awards this year. One such award will be the undergraduate research fellowship award for a clinical translational research project focused on human health and mentored by a VCU faculty member. This project will aim to translate scientific discoveries into […]