Announcements
WVU awarded Million Hearts® funding to improve rural health outcomes
The leading cause of death in West Virginia is heart disease. To improve cardiovascular health in the Mountain State, the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and WVU Heart and Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure Program were selected for a Million Hearts® Health Equity Implementation $50,000 award from the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD).
WVU Occupational Therapy researchers evaluate handwriting intervention among homeschooled children in West Virginia
When it comes to success in school, many may think of test skills as the key differentiator. But occupational therapists at West Virginia University say that for some children, success comes down to a much finer point – the pencil grip.
Harnessing research insights, close to home: WVU Cancer Institute hosts the fifth annual Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium
The Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2023 drew 177 participants from five institutions.
An uptick in confronting ‘the silent epidemic of this decade’
Tick-borne disease – such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and babesiosis – rose by 25% from 2011 to 2019 in the United States. WVU scientists are confronting the issue head-on from angles that include developing vaccines and designing tools that quickly diagnose tick-borne infections. And they’re mostly working in cross-disciplinary teams to take down the tiny but mighty tick.
New WVU study tracks medical resident sleep, burnout
From treating patients to continuing education, medical school graduates spend several hours each week dedicated to their practice during residency training. To help determine the level of fatigue the trainees experience, West Virginia University researchers studied individuals completing a rotation in the intensive care unit.
WVU pharmacy professor to lead groundbreaking research with new $11.2 million grant
The West Virginia University School of Pharmacy will soon join the elite institutions championing biomedical research excellence.
Participants needed for WVU telehealth research
Researchers at West Virginia University are currently enrolling participants in an Extended Telehealth Pilot. A collaboration of the WVU Health Affairs Institute and West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Bureau for Medical Services, the Extended Telehealth Pilot is an expansion of previous telehealth pilot work.
Planned gift distribution provides $1 million to expand graduate student opportunities at the WVU School of Medicine
Graduate students in the Cellular and Integrative Physiology program at the West Virginia University School of Medicine will benefit from a late alumnus’s legacy gift. A recent $1 million enhancement to the Dan Watts Endowment for Pharmacological Research and Education established by Dr. Thomas R. (Tom) Poole will further student research and education in the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology.
WVU researchers weigh pros and cons of Code Interpreter, await upgrades
While West Virginia University researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they’ve found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological data utilizing computational methods to prioritize targeted treatment for cancer and genetic disorders.
WVU researchers tracing cause of diabetic heart disease with $2M in federal funding
There can be 6,000 mitochondria per cell in a heart cell. John Hollander with the WVU School of Medicine was recently awarded more than $2 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study mitochondria to help those with Type 2 diabetes.