New funding program targets rural recruitment through technology
The Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research announced a new funding program aimed at helping researchers recruit study participants in rural areas. The Rural Pilots Voucher Program offers VCU researchers and investigators at partner institutions the opportunity to apply for a voucher to offset costs related to innovative digital health methods for participant engagement […]
Little-known resources, public access policy and data management: Eight questions with VCU Librarian Nina Exner
Nina Exner, Ph.D., calls her job a ‘funny profession.’ Being a research data librarian means different things at different institutions, but for Exner it translates largely into data management. She helps VCU researchers comply – appropriately and ethically – with the data management plans required by the government or foundations who give them grants. The […]
Children are at heart for investigator funded by Wright Center’s pilot imaging grant
The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU spoke to Uyen Truong, M.D., about her research into pediatric pulmonary hypertension. Last year, Truong received a Wright Center Pilot Imaging Fund award, supported by the National Institutes of Health, for her project titled “The impact of bariatric surgery on adolescent cardiovascular function.” The fund supports pilot work that uses the […]
The Wright Center is here to help with your research resolutions
Last year did not go as planned for anyone. But 2021 will slowly, we hope, bring a return to the new normal in our professional lives. If more or better health-related research at VCU is one of your 2021 resolutions, the Wright Center can help. Find your research resolution below and see how. Wright Center […]
Gut bacteria and health: VCU researcher leverages Wright Center resources to establish himself as leader in the field
Across the world, many years ago, doctors would prescribe unappealing concoctions of human and animal stool a treat a number of stomach ailments. And, in the last 10 years, clinical trials have begun to confirm why. “There’s really a factory inside our bellies,” says Jasmohan Bajaj, M.D., a gastroenterologist and liver specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University. […]
New pilot funding opportunity with Pauley Heart Center
The Wright Center is joining forces with the Pauley Heart Center this year to offer an up-to-$50,000 grant to VCU faculty. This one-time funding opportunity for a pilot project is intended to stimulate new collaborative initiatives and support critical experiments that will lay the groundwork for further funding and published research. Pauley and Wright seek […]
Four VCU faculty teams awarded Wright Center pilot grants
The Wright Center has awarded funding to four faculty research teams whose projects will use the center’s innovative imaging facilities. The pilot imaging fund supports clinical research that uses the Wright Center’s innovative Collaborative Advanced Research Imaging facility. The facility features 6,000 square feet of research space, including a research-dedicated MRI scanner, a mock scanner, […]
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 […]
WATCH: Antonio Abbate and Joan Greer in conversation with Lauren Harris for Clinical Trials Day
Lauren Harris, Wright Center’s hub research capacity administrator, interviews Antonio Abbate, M.D., Ph.D., the medical director of the Clinical Research Unit and an associate director at the Wright Center, and Joan Greer, R.N., nurse manager at the Clinical Research Unit at VCU Health. Abbate and Greer answer your questions about clinical trials participation and what […]
A taste of Italy: Professor’s clinical research examines whether food really is the best medicine
By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research Virginia Commonwealth University assistant professor Salvatore Carbone, Ph.D., smiles as he fondly recalls dinners with his family during summers spent in Sperlonga, Italy, a coastal town overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. “Extra-virgin olive oil was on everything, from pasta to fish and […]