VCU’s Wright Center awards four NIH-funded grants to accelerate medical research
Professors from the schools of Medicine, Public Health and Social Work earn support for disease-agnostic projects that have the potential to be applied across different fields of medicine to help patients. Four interdisciplinary research projects earned a total of $100,000 in translational science grants from the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational […]
Primary care shortage affects 44% of Virginia’s neighborhoods and almost 3.8 million residents, new VCU study finds
Rural communities are particularly hard-hit, and the research could point to workforce initiatives. Nearly half of Virginia’s neighborhoods don’t have enough nearby primary care physicians for their residents, with rural communities being hit hardest by workforce shortages, according to a new study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University. Using anonymized health care claims data, […]
