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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to host talks by nationally renowned AI, cancer, addiction experts

The tradition of introducing some of the world’s leading scientists to local and Virginia Tech audiences will continue this fall through the Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series.

Renowned scholars, including members of the U.S. National Academies of Medicine, Science, and Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and other top institutions, will deliver public lectures at the institute beginning in September. For more than a decade, the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has introduced many of the world’s leading scientific and medical voices to the Roanoke–Blacksburg area.  

“Bringing together these esteemed scholars at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to engage with our community and meet Virginia Tech faculty and students is a rare and extraordinary experience,” said Michael Friedlander, executive director of the research institute and Virginia Tech vice president for health sciences and technology. “These events enrich our academic environment and create collaborations and insights that are seldom available anywhere else. Moreover, they shine a clear and understandable light on the latest advances in science and medicine that will impact all of our lives for all members of the greater community.”