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

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. […]

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 […]

The Wright Center has awarded a collaborative research team of two professors, one from the VCU School of Medicine and one from the VCU School of Pharmacy, an Endowment Fund grant for pilot research. Qun Chen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at the School of Medicine’s Internal Medicine Department, and Shijun Zhang, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry […]

Recent Wright Center Ph.D. graduate Tia Turner has won VCU’s 2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Life Sciences. Turner received a National Cancer Institute grant to fund her research aimed at uncovering novel drug combinations to treat triple-negative breast cancer last year. She graduated from the Ph.D. program in May after defending her award-winning dissertation and […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Three VCU faculty members recently received Wright Center awards supporting projects from the School of Medicine and the colleges of Engineering and Health Professions. Ranging from $40,000 to $50,000, the awards from the Wright Center Endowment Fund support the collection of pilot data for clinical and translational science research projects – to be collected within […]

Seven Wright Center clinician-scientists were recognized as “top docs” in Richmond magazine’s annual listing of leading physicians in the Richmond region. The doctors were chosen by their peers and provide a wide range of care in multiple specialties at VCU Health. Addiction Medicine Director Gerard Moeller, M.D. Emerging Scholar Caitlin E. Martin, M.D., MPH Cardiology Hub Research […]

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 […]