Why don’t pain treatments work? Naomi Carter hopes to find out
The VCU M.D.-Ph.D. student has advanced from the Wright Center’s T32 training grant to her own NIH fellowship, developing new ways to measure pain that could help close the gap between the lab and the clinic. Naomi Carter has a mission, and she’ll tell you exactly what it is. “My mission is to improve how […]
Nina Dashti-Gibson is researching pancreatic cancer and bringing science to the community
The M.D.-Ph.D. student believes combining medicine and research will help her make the largest impact. She was honored in the spring for her work on an art project that built cancer awareness in the Richmond area. Nina Dashti-Gibson came to cancer research by following a question with few clear answers. As an M.D.-Ph.D. student in […]
Gevick Safarians is building tiny worlds to fight a deadly cancer
The M.D.-Ph.D. student is using microfluidic chips to simulate the environments metastatic prostate cancer travels through — and to find the chinks in its armor. Gevick Safarians remembers the conversations. Patients dealing with cancer and other diseases with very poor prognoses, hoping not for years but for months — a little more time to settle […]
Hannah Stadtler completes her Ph.D. with a mission to understand HIV and the brain
Her research was propelled by a Wright Center biomedical sciences initiative, and her M.D. is next as she continues in VCU’s Medical Scientist Training Program.
VCU and Central Virginia VA receive $1.2 million NIH grant to train scholars in big data medicine
The five-year training award, a complementary grant to VCU’s $27.5 million Clinical and Translational Science Award, will support postdoctoral fellows who will work with federal healthcare datasets covering millions of veterans, service members and civilians. Virginia Commonwealth University and the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System have received a five-year T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein […]
