Announcements
Student in Guo Laboratory Awarded Prestigious Travel Award
Salvi Singh an MS student in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at WVU who works in the Laboratory of Dr. Lan Guo, as a Research Assistant was awarded the NSF Travel Award for her presentation at the 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2018). The title of her presentation was: Genet-CNV: Boolean Implication Networks for Modelling Genome-Wide Co-occurrence of DNA Copy Number Variations: Ms. Singh, working with her mentor Lan Guo, Ph.D. uses an algorithm to detect DNA copy number variation networks that may be important for lung cancers. Her current research focuses on identifying genes that may be drivers in lung cancer initiation and metastasis.
WVU in the News: Public health researcher discusses barriers to syringe exchange programs
WVU School Associate Professor Steve Davis recently spoke with WV Public Broadcasting's Roxy Todd about his recent study that reveals the fear of arrest may be preventing some people from using syringe exchanges. Listen to the interview online.
The Health Sciences Campus Farmer's Market returns Wednesday, May 22
Summer semester is here, which means it's time for the annual WVU Medicine/Health Sciences Farmer's Market - starting May 22.
Pharmacy graduate students win national competition, earn exposure for WVU in health research and data science
PhD students Jayesh Patel, Nazneen Shaikh and Rowida Mohamed, all from the School's Health and Outcomes Research Program, are the winners of this year’s Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) team competition for students. The competition is sponsored by AcademyHealth and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The annual competition invites students to use data from the HSRPRoj database in conjunction with other sources to identify research gaps in health services and systems research.
WVU pharmacy professor chosen as academic leadership fellow
A program designed to develop the nation’s most promising pharmacy educators to become future leaders in pharmacy and higher education will soon include an additional faculty from West Virginia University.
Meet our grads: Jeffrey Cannon
Major: Medical student Hometown and state: Beckley, WV
From Clay Marsh: WVU firmly supports vaccinating children and adults
West Virginia University and its Health Sciences schools support evidence-based vaccination of children and adults as supported by every governing health body of children and of our population.
WVU researcher: HIV epidemic partially fueled by national opioid crisis
Infectious diseases expert Sally Hodder, director of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at West Virginia University, was part of a national team that published “AIDS in America – Back in the Headlines at Long Last,” a perspective that provides detailed information about the ongoing HIV epidemic.
Rescheduled: 2019 Health Sciences Day at the Monongalia County Ballpark
Fans with tickets for the WVU vs. Penn State game that was originally scheduled for April 23 and canceled due to weather may exchange their tickets for the WVU vs. George Washington game set for May 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Public Seminar featuring MacArthur Genius Awardees
The WVCTSI will their External Advisory Committee next week. As part of their visit, two of the esteemed committee members, Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr and Dr. Bonnie Bassler, will host a public seminar focused on reaching national excellence in research. These two members have both received MacArthur Fellowships, Genius Awards, and can share their experiences and advice on reaching a presence on a national and international stage. This special event will take place Monday May 13th from 12:30-1:30 in G119B of the Health Sciences North Building.