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William “Jamie” Tyler receives innovation award
William “Jamie” Tyler, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, recently received the 2013 Innovation Award from the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council. Tyler was honored for pioneering a promising avenue of research that could both provide powerful insights into brain circuitry and yield a novel approach to treating neurological and psychiatric diseases.
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Turning Alzheimer’s fuzzy analog signals into high definition
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have discovered how the predominant class of Alzheimer’s pharmaceuticals might sharpen the brain’s performance.
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A focus on understanding the human brain
At the recent annual Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine meeting, Michael Friedlander, president of the society and executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, served as the organizing chair of a symposium entitled, “New Experimental Approaches to Human Brain Function in Health and Disease.”
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Innovations in the direct study of human brain function in health and disease to be presented
Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will present new approaches to measuring dopamine signals in the human brain at the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine’s annual symposium in Boston on April 21.
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Konark Mukherjee presents evidence that molecules believed to be benign have an active, important role in neurogenesis
Konark Mukherjee presents evidence that molecules believed to be benign have an active, important role in neurogenesis.
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Collaborations forged to create innovative solutions to children’s health issues
Virginia Tech, Children’s National Medical Center, and George Washington University have partnered in a unique program to create research breakthroughs in children’s health. The three institutions contributed a total of $375,000 to support seven collaborative research projects that will use translational science to address health issues so complex they require new insights, conceptual approaches, and technological advances.
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Michael Friedlander named associate provost for health sciences at Virginia Tech
Michael Friedlander, PhD, has been named associate provost for health sciences at Virginia Tech. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for formalizing the creation of a Faculty of Health Sciences and guiding the creation of a university-wide graduate program focused on translational biology, medicine, and health.
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Warren Bickel appointed to national scientific advisory committee on tobacco products
Warren Bickel, director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently appointed to the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Early education has been scientifically proved to help close the achievement gap
Craig Ramey, PhD, the founder of a decades-long scientific study that has proved the enduring benefits of early education, today applauded President Obama’s call for universal access to high-quality preschool in the United States.
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Kirk and Spock joined at the hip: the feeling of computing
Kirk and Spock may not need a Vulcan mind meld to share cognition: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have found that our cold reasoning and hot feelings may be more intimately connected than previously thought.
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Distinguished Scholars Series
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Research Institute Seminar Program
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