Announcements
WVU Trademark Licensing updates academic lab coat standards
WVU's Trademark Licensing recently worked with HSC leadership to develop standardized protocol when ordering lab coats for employees and students in the following academic capacities: Health Sciences Center students, medical students and residents, professional programs, laboratory program students and professors.
The WVU CPRC is seeking healthy participants for an upcoming February study!
The WVU CPRC is seeking healthy participants for an upcoming February study! If you are a healthy male ages 18 or older, or post-menopausal female, a non-smoker/non-tobacco user you could be compensated up to $1100 by participating in an upcoming research study during the month of February. More detailed information regarding times and specifics of returns and procedures will be provided to you at your screening visit. For more information, please contact us at 1-888-991-2772 or email us at wvucprc@hsc.wvu.edu.
Marsh, Wright to look forward to 2017
Join these leaders for a discussion on Wednesday at noon in Room 1909 Health Sciences South.
World-renowned cancer expert to lead WVU Cancer Institute
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Richard M. Goldberg, M.D., renowned gastrointestinal cancer expert, has been named the new director of the WVU Cancer Institute.
$6 million goes to Marshall and WVU to aid research and rural health
More than six million dollars remaining in a court settlement account has been transferred to West Virginia University and Marshall University. The funds were split equally between the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) at WVU and the Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health at Marshall.
BOG approves $3 million in lab and research office construction at HSC
WVU will invest $3 million in research space at the Health Sciences Center, including an inhalation lab facility in the HSC and research offices and conference space in the Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Facility.
NIH Summer Internship Program announced
For more information, please visit: http://www.training.nih.gov
New Funding Opportunities for U-I Partnerships
A new listing of Federal, State and Foundation funding opportunites for U-I Partnerships have been released. They are grouped by research focus below.
Hackathon
The Health Sciences Innovation Center is planning the first ever WVU Health Sciences Hackathon on March 18-19, 2017. We will be sending out more information in the coming weeks. There will be $10,000 in prizes in 5 prize categories. Teams should be multidisciplinary and it is open to all members of the WVU community. Students who may be interested are: Programmers, public health experts, media gurus, business students, clinicians, and researchers. The theme of the event is “Human in the Loop” Please contact Debra Beery at dbeery@hsc.wvu.edu to receive more information as it is available.
WVCTSI names four new Research Scholars
Four clinician scientists have been named research scholars by the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The four investigators awarded this designation include: Treah Haggerty, M.D., Matthew Dietz, M.D., Malcolm Mattes, M.D., and Nicole Bryan, M.D., Ph.D. The WVCTSI Research Scholar Program enhances the development of exceptional early career researchers in clinical and/or translational science.