Home
Featured Story
June 18, 2025
‘Every time we wait, we lose someone who might have made it’
For every careful step forward in cancer research, there is a patient waiting — a family holding its breath in the middle of the night.
That reality was clear at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Cancer Research Symposium in Roanoke held June 11-12.
The annual event, organized this year by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC's Cancer Research Center in Roanoke, was created to bring together researchers — including faculty, clinicians, and students — who are united by a passion to understand cancer, improve treatments, and develop cures.
Campus News
-
Article Item
Virginia Tech student named Goldwater Scholar , articleRising senior Lacey Ngo has been awarded a 2025 Goldwater Scholarship, a federal merit award for undergraduate science, mathematics, and engineering students.
Creating a healthier future. For everyone.
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC is one of the nation’s fastest-growing academic biomedical research enterprises and a destination for world-class researchers. The institute’s Virginia Tech scientists focus on diseases that are the leading causes of death and suffering in the United States, including brain disorders, heart disease, and cancer. Since its founding in 2010, the research institute has experienced unprecedented growth: doubling its enterprise and lab facilities in Roanoke, while also investing in brand-new laboratories on the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C.
NEWS
In the News
-
Redirect Item
-
Redirect Item
-
Redirect Item
-
Redirect Item
VIDEOS
-
Home Item
Seminar: Thalamocortical Networks for Flexible Cognition: Circuit Computations to Clinical Applications , homeJune 30, 2025, at 11 a.m. | Michael Halassa, M.D. , Ph. D., Director of Translational Research, Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine | Seminar
-
Redirect Item
2025 Vascular and Heart Research Symposium , redirectAug. 18-19, 2025 | Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC | 4 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, Virginia
-
Redirect Item
20th International Biochemistry of Exercise Conference , redirectJune 1-5, 2026 | IBEC 20206: Exercise and Healthspan | Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Giving to the Research Institute
Your generous support of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute's rigorous biomedical research enterprise makes a difference for our faculty, students, and patients. Every donation helps accelerate the pace of new discoveries to help patients with cancer, neurological disorders, heart disease, and even rare genetic disorders. Private donations fast-track our progress.