Announcements
Finding Wellness initiative aimed at improving personal health
Finding Wellness is a new, free program for people who are ready to make permanent lifestyle changes to improve personal health. This six-week program is open to anyone in the community and meets from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday afternoons at WVU Medicine University Town Centre. Monthly supermarket shopping events take place on the second Friday of every month.
WVU Injury Control Research Center presents awards for excellence in teaching and research
Steven Wheeler, Ph.D., and Brandon Lucke-Wold have been recognized by the WVU Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) for excellence in teaching and research in the fields of injury and/or violence prevention.
Two from WVU named BioWV leaders
Two WVU researchers have been named to the leadership of BioWV, the Bioscience Association of West Virginia, a nonprofit organization that promotes the state’s growing bioscience business community.
New Grant Funding Opportunities: Prescription Drug Abuse
New funding announcements from the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
The Defense Health Program: DoD Peer Reviewed Medical Research Programs
The Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) Defense Appropriations Act provides $278.7 million to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP). The vision of the PRMRP is to improve the health and well-being of all military Service members, Veterans, and beneficiaries. The PRMRP challenges the scientific and clinical communities to address one of the FY16 congressionally directed topic areas with original ideas that foster new directions in basic science and translational research; novel product development leading to improved therapeutic or diagnostic tools; synergistic, multidisciplinary research programs; or clinical trials that address an immediate clinical need.
Technopalooza 2016
The Office of Research and Graduate Education will be hosting a fast paced, social event with brief presentations, posters and informal conversations focused on cutting edge technology and shared resources open to all researchers at WVU. We want to increase awareness of all the assets we have available to drive our science. This event is campus wide, so please spread the word and bring your colleagues along. Faculty, post-docs and students (graduate and undergraduate) are welcome. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Evansdale Crossing, 4th floor May 25th, 3-5 p.m.
WVU to honor Health Sciences faculty and staff
The 2016 HSC Vice President’s Awards Ceremony will be held Thursday, April 28, from 2– 4 p.m. in the Pylons Lobby.
Simple Mind-Body Therapies Shown to Improve Subjective Cognitive Decline, a Strong Predictor of Alzheimer’s Disease
New Study from School of Public Health professor published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
WVU BOG approves new degree programs, receives update on Beckley campus
The WVU Board of Governors gave final approval to repurpose an existing School of Pharmacy Ph.D. track into its own independent doctoral program, which will offer a new doctor of philosophy degree in health services and outcomes research.
WVU Cancer Institute Evening of Science April 25 at New Evansdale Crossing
Team Members: Yuriy Loskutov; Matthew Smolkin; Vishy Ramamurthy; Max Sokolov; Chris Cifarelli; Adham Salkeni; Candece Gladson (Cleveland Clinic)and Jann Sarkaria (Mayo Clinic Rochester)