VCU researchers begin clinical trials on investigational drug therapy for COVID-19
March 24, 2020 Dear VCU and VCU Health colleagues, We are proud to share that VCU researchers have started two clinical trials on a potential, experimental treatment for COVID-19. Dr. Arun Sanyal, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the VCU School of Medicine and a liver specialist and gastroenterologist at VCU Health, is leading […]
VCU will lead $50M study of traumatic brain injuries in military personnel
Dear VCU and VCU Health colleagues, It is our pleasure to announce that the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $50 million grant to oversee a national research consortium of universities, hospitals and clinics that will study the long-term impacts of mild traumatic brain injuries on service members and veterans. Dr. David X. […]
Record-setting research at VCU
Dear VCU and VCU Health community, For more than a decade, Virginia Commonwealth University has steadily and strategically taken our place among America’s premier public research universities. This includes setting institutional records in sponsored research activity 10 times in the last 12 years. We are justifiably proud of our enterprise-wide focus and commitment to research, […]
Remembering Ken Wright
Every once in a while, a person touches so many lives that their name becomes synonymous with good, with generosity, with a kindness that runs so deep—and a vision that goes so far—that it’s impossible to measure the impact they make. That was Ken Wright. If you spent any time around Ken, then you know […]
VCU is all heart
We performed the 16th heart transplant in human history more than half century ago. And we continue to be on the front lines of the war against mankind’s greatest killer. Every year, about 630,000 Americans die of heart disease. That’s a staggering number. To put it in tragic perspective, that’s like losing the entire […]
A Year of Progress and Milestones
Dear VCU community, A warm welcome to the start of a semester filled with milestones, history and progress. This fall, we welcome more than 8,000 new students to Virginia Commonwealth University, including 4,600 first-year students, the largest class in our history. In addition, the first-year class is minority majority at 55%. In all, 31,000 students […]
