VCU researchers launch ‘PITT Stop’ to help clinical investigators beat administrative bottlenecks
Supported by a $25,000 pilot award from the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science, the new PITT Stop training platform officially launches Oct. 21 to help health care investigators navigate complex administrative hurdles. When Richard K. Sterling, M.D., M.Sc., professor of hepatology and assistant dean of clinical research at the VCU School of […]
How a small NIH pilot at VCU helped launch a precision medicine company
A seed grant through the Wright Center offered crucial support for TACIT — an AI tool for reading human tissue cell by cell — and catalyzed a spinout that has since expanded to build virtual tissues for precision medicine. The human body is not flat. It is a crowded, three-dimensional world, built from trillions of […]
From A.I. to Wearables: VCU’s Wright Center awards four NIH-funded grants to accelerate medical research
RICHMOND, Va. — The C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research announced today the awarding of $100,000 to four interdisciplinary research projects at Virginia Commonwealth University. These $25,000 pilot awards are funded through the Wright Center’s $27 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), […]
