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

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 […]

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 […]

This summer, the Wright Center will host National Institutes of Health (NIH)-style mock study sections to support faculty science and funding. The sections closely mimic an actual NIH study section and are scheduled for researchers looking to apply for one of their fall grant cycles. All VCU junior faculty interested in clinical and translational research […]

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 […]

  Patient-centric care means patient-centric research. And that’s what the Wright Center and VCU Health do. International Clinical Trials Day on May 20 celebrates the tireless work of the doctors, nurses and staff that make clinical trials happen. And it’s a chance to encourage patient participation in clinical trials. On May 20, 1747, Scottish physician […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Anne Dreyfuss VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research Imagine this: You’re walking down the street in the middle of the day when you encounter a stranger crouched and crying on the sidewalk. Is your instinct to comfort the person or to use their emotional vulnerability to hurt them? […]