President’s Posts

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 […]

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, […]

Dear colleagues, As a new academic year at VCU gets underway, we want to recognize the outstanding research discoveries and innovations carried out by our remarkable faculty, students and research staff across the VCU enterprise. Research proposed and conducted across the university reflects the ongoing journey toward national prominence in research highlighted in our Quest 2025: Together […]

Dear members of the VCU and VCU Health communities: I am pleased to announce that P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., will become the new Vice President for Research and Innovation, effective Oct. 1. Dr. Rao – no relation to me — comes to VCU from the University of Minnesota, where he is professor and associate dean for […]

Learn, discover, and create — this is what students do at Virginia Commonwealth University. As part of VCU’s Pre-Accelerator Program, student entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds and with diverse skill sets are combining real-world experience with what they learn in the classroom to launch real, viable business ventures. With guidance from mentors, our student entrepreneurs are […]