News Release
VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research Works to Accelerate Laboratory Discoveries
into Treatments for Patients
October 3, 2011
It’s been a little more than a year since Virginia Commonwealth University received the single largest federal grant in its history, a $20 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health. Since that time, the home of VCU’s CTSA grant, the Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR), has taken its place among an elite consortium of 60 nationally prominent research institutions all focused on the importance of translational science. Read the VCU News release.
VCU Participating in National Research Study Recruitment Registry.
Virginia Commonwealth University is one of 64 institutions participating in the first national, disease-neutral, volunteer recruitment registry. Now, people within the Richmond community who want to participate in research studies can connect online with researchers nationwide by joining ResearchMatch.org. See the VCU News release. Learn more about how to participate in ResearchMatch.org at: http://www.cctr.vcu.edu/researchmatch/
Featured annoucements
- The launch of a new series of newsletters will spotlight Core laboratories and other shared research resources that are available to the VCU community. Each newsletter will highlight the capabilities and services of an individual resource and how they can help drive your research program. Learn more about the Flow Cytometry Shared Resource Core Facility»