Announcements
WVU recruiting six new quantitative neuroscientists
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – WVU’s Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) has launched a national search for six scientists to form the backbone of a new push into quantitative neuroscience – an interdisciplinary approach to studying how the nervous system processes information within the human brain.
Multi-university team finds possible mechanism to suppress skin cancer metastasis
New research, published this week in Laboratory Investigation (Nature Publishing Group) may hold the key a challenging problem in cancer treatment. The investigation was an international effort led by Mary J.C. Hendrix, president of Shepherd University; her laboratory partners at West Virginia University, Richard Seftor, Elisabeth Seftor and Naira Margaryan; and a team of collaborators in Chicago, Boston and Australia. The research team studies a protein long known to be active in embryonic development, called Nodal, that also has a critical role in aggressive human cancer.
WVU Health Sciences to host nationally recognized speakers for Global Health Week
Global health experts from around the nation will take on important issues during the West Virginia University School of Medicine's 2016 Global Health Week.
Stephenie Kennedy named associate director of health disparities program
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Stephenie Kennedy, Ed.D., associate director for cancer prevention and control with the West Virginia University Cancer Institute and research assistant professor with the WVU School of Medicine, has been named associate director of the health disparities program at WVU.
Startup invites health professionals and public to opening Oct. 4
President E. Gordon Gee will officially welcome healthcare startup Good Measures to the WVU Health Sciences Innovation Center, at an open house from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 4. The Boston-based company established an office earlier this year WVU, located in the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Center building on the Health Sciences campus.
Internationally known expert joins WVU School of Public Health as first endowed professor
Internationally renowned researcher Gordon S. Smith, M.B., Ch.B., MPH, has joined the WVU School of Public Health as the inaugural Stuart M. and Joyce N. Robbins Distinguished Professor in Epidemiology.
WVU researcher: Self-injury ties with diabetes as 7th leading cause of death in U.S.
A new study finds self-injury – suicide and drug self-intoxication – ties with diabetes as the seventh leading cause of death and ranks ahead of influenza and pneumonia combined and kidney disease.
Gold Rush t-shirts available at School of Nursing
The annual United Way Gold Rush is early this year - September 3, so get your t-shirt now!
WVU to mark Morgantown Overdose Awareness Day with panel discussion
Makalynn, a WVU student in a 12-step recovery program, is among the WVU and Morgantown representatives who will take part in a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Mountainlair.