Chemist to donate potential pharmaceutical royalties to developing country
The National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year research grant for a total of $2.5 million to an international biodiversity group led by David G.I. Kingston, University Distinguished...
View ArticleNew cancer therapy appears promising in pre-clinical trials
A new method for treating breast cancer is showing early promise in pre-clinical trials.
View ArticleTechulon licenses technology that integrates diagnostics with therapeutics
Techulon Inc., a life sciences company based in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, has signed an exclusive license with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc.to market a new, traceable...
View ArticleKey information about breast cancer risk and development is found in 'junk' DNA
A new genetic biomarker that indicates an increased risk for developing breast cancer can be found in an individual's "junk" (non-coding) DNA, according to a new study featuring work from researchers...
View ArticleEarly cancer treatment successes lead to CAREER Award for Rafael Davalos
In a recent article in the "Journal of Clinical Oncology," co-author Rafael Davalos described the use of a method he invented to successfully treat a seven-year-old spayed female Labrador retriever...
View ArticleVirginia Tech research magazine reports on saving wildlife, recovering coal...
Articles in the winter 2012 Virginia Tech research magazine look at the human-wildlife interface, inventions to treat tumors and to remove coal from slurry ponds, and the role of appointees in the...
View ArticleCylindrical cell structure parts may aid in targeting diseases such as...
Jianhua Xing, a Virginia Tech assistant professor of biology, and his colleagues did computational studies as a step to determine viable ways to use a component of cell structure for fighting such...
View ArticleBreast cancer risks acquired in pregnancy may pass all the way to...
Engineers with Virginia Tech Research Center -- Arlington team up with oncologists from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center to show in animals that maternal exposure to a high-fat diet or...
View ArticleVirginia Tech study finds virus promising for prostate cancer treatment
Researchers at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine have discovered that a genetically engineered Newcastle disease virus, which harms chickens but not humans, kills prostate...
View ArticleScientists image nanoparticles in action
A newly developed technique captures the movements of nanoparticles in a liquid environment with atomic resolution.
View ArticleNational Institutes of Health awards new study in cancer research to Chang Lu
Progress made in the technology development for studying protein-DNA interactions, conducted by Chang Lu, associate professor of chemical engineering and a core faculty member of the School of...
View ArticleScott Verbridge uses micro-fabricated blood vessels to study tumor growth and...
Breakthroughs in an integrated understanding of angiogenesis will benefit researchers in broad biomedical fields, including cancer, vascular science, and tissue engineering.
View ArticleDrug patch treatment sees new breakthrough under watch of Virginia Tech...
Lissett Bickford has developed a flexible microneedle patch that allows drugs to be delivered directly and fully through the skin.
View ArticleHorses test cutting-edge treatment for stubborn skin tumors
Researchers in the Virginia Tech-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Science are testing a new treatment...
View ArticleCompanion animal clinical trials underway at the veterinary college, new...
Clinical trials at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine involve a wide range of new treatments, including the use of gold nanoparticles and a targeted laser therapy to treat solid...
View ArticleAdvances in 'tumor engineering' lead to grant to improve drug therapy
Certain malignant tumors have illustrated an ability to evolve in such a way that they are able to resist therapy in relatively fast time frames.
View ArticleGoing viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists were awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, part of the Center for Innovative Technology, to engineer a viral...
View ArticleA dog lives on; now the stage is being set for treating humans
The National Cancer Institute awarded Scott Verbridge, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics, a $386,149 research grant to move a glioblastoma treatment a step closer to being...
View ArticleBahareh Behkam wins National Science Foundation award to develop new methods...
Her research will focus on investigating interactions between bacteria and tumor associated cells in a 3-D tumor model and developing engineered methods to locally modulate these interactions. The...
View ArticleScientists visualize potential brain cancer treatments in real time
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have developed new imaging techniques to watch dangerous brain tumor cells respond to treatment in real time.
View Article2015 Illuminator Award recipients announced
The award is given annually to four members of the Virginia Tech community who have outstanding abilities, innovative ideas to fuel the future, well-honed leadership skills, and a commitment to service.
View ArticleNew technology helps personalized medicine by enabling epigenomic analysis...
A new technology, improving the efficiency of the studies in epigenomics, is the subject of a Nature Methods journal article by Chang Lu and Zhenning Cao of Virginia Tech and Kai Tan, Changya Chen and...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Magazine explores the fight against cancer, remembers the late...
The summer 2015 edition of Virginia Tech Magazine is available now in print and online.
View ArticleScientists find a small tweak may make a big difference in immune cell...
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have discovered a slight shift in environmental factors can change how an immune cell matures.
View ArticleProposed School of Neuroscience expected to attract large interest from...
Virginia Tech’s proposed School of Neuroscience will study not only disorders of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease, but also the mind itself, including decision-making, behavior, and creativity.
View ArticleResearchers find way to make resistant brain cancer cells sensitive to treatment
Scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and clinicians from Carilion Clinic have discovered how to sensitize drug-resistant human glioblastoma cells to chemotherapy.
View ArticleResearcher's computational model of microtubules could explain basic...
Virginia Tech’s Shengfeng Cheng has won a seed grant of $100,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust to create an intricate computer model of how tubulin proteins connect to one another to form...
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