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• Special NIH Presentation "Navigating NIH Systems to Advance Your Career & Tips for Successful Grant Writing"

  Wednesday, August 14, 2019

  WVCTSI hosting special NIH speaker on September 16

• John C. Byrd of OSU to present annual DeLynn Lecture September 4

  Monday, August 5, 2019

  John C. Byrd, M.D will lecture on targeted therapies in leukemia on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, in the Okey Patteson Auditorium (Health Sciences Center-North), at 4:00 pm. A Q&A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For those who cannot attend, the event also will be webcast.

• WVU invites statewide entrepreneurs to participate in NSF I-Corps training program

  Thursday, August 1, 2019

  MORGANTOWN, W. VA. – West Virginia University invites all entrepreneurs, researchers and students from across West Virginia to participate in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) training program which will help prepare participants to accelerate their cutting-edge technologies and products into the marketplace.

• WVU researcher aims to improve cancer outcomes for West Virginians

  Thursday, July 25, 2019

  Work from Dr. A. Courtney DeVries, the John T. and June R. Chambers Chair of Oncology Research at the WVU Cancer Institute, and her team is focusing on the side effects a cancer patient experiences during treatment, depending on their social environment.

• WVU researchers use telehealth to head off hospitalizations and ER visits

  Thursday, July 25, 2019

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rural Americans are more likely than their urban counterparts to die prematurely from the five most common killers: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke. Telehealth—the use of technology to provide healthcare remotely—is an emerging way to combat these trends. And it’s growing in popularity.

• Workshop on Collaborative Care August 14

  Monday, July 15, 2019

  Psychiatrists and primary Care Physicians are in a unique position to help shape mental health care delivery using integrated care approaches. A workshop on applying the collaborative care approach, led by Dr. Mark Duncan is available on August 14, 2019. This workshop provides participants with the practical skills needed to work in collaborative care. The course describes the delivery of mental health care in primary care settings with a focus on the evidence–base, guiding principles and an introduction to implementation strategies.Space is limited! Register by August 7, 2019. Register here: https://apasan.wufoo.com/forms/zudqfri0hqwhp4/ Questions? Contact absheppard@hsc.wvu.edu

• WVU researchers map crystals to advance treatments for stroke, diabetes, dementia

  Monday, July 8, 2019

  Medications attach to the proteins in our bodies the way spacecrafts dock into the International Space Station. Describing that process in detail can reveal a lot about how the medications work—and what form new medications should take.

• Nutritional supplements and diets not always protective, WVU research suggests

  Monday, July 8, 2019

  Do the nutritional supplements people take or the diets they adhere to actually protect them against cardiovascular problems and death?

• Department of Defense Chronic Pain Management Research Program

  Monday, July 8, 2019

  The FY19 Defense Appropriation provides $10 million (M) to the Department of Defense Chronic Pain Management Research Program (CPMRP) to support research of exceptional scientific merit with the potential to make a significant impact on improving the health and quality of life of Service members, Veterans, and all Americans living with chronic pain. 

• WV Women Forward seeking input

  Wednesday, July 3, 2019

  West Virginia Women Forward is an initiative through WVU and West Virginia Forward that is working hard to identify challenges that WV girls and women face in regards to education, workforce barriers and the pay gap (to name a few). These challenges create barriers to educational attainment, which can hinder opportunities in education and career pathways. Leaders from all over the state are working together on this initiative and one of the first things that has been identified is that many programs and initiatives are happening in silos. Therefore, it will be beneficial that we get a state-wide inventory completed of programs and organizations supporting women in West Virginia. We started a preliminary list to create a medium where all could add to it so we can take stock of existing groups and initiatives that aim to support West Virginia women, and we’re hoping the list will give us a good idea of potential collaborators and unaddressed needs. We’d like to make it as comprehensive as possible, and your input is invaluable. Please send information on any women’s programs that you know about and don’t currently see represented on the spreadsheet to Maggie McDonald (mgmcdonald@mail.wvu.edu) who is collecting the information.