NeuroSURF
Welcome to neuroSURF
Translational Neurobiology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC is one of Virginia Tech’s only research institute devoted solely to biomedical research. It opened on Sept. 1, 2010, welcoming new faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students, and staff from across the United States and throughout the world. The institute has grown rapidly, and as of 2023 holds more than $170 million in research grant funding, primarily from the National Institutes of Health, with nearly 40 research laboratories.
Virginia Tech is a large, land grant university with a strong history of providing meaningful experiential learning opportunities to undergraduate students. This includes a long history of successful summer undergraduate research programs and NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Virginia Tech is in the midst of unprecedented growth in neurobiology-related research, training, and education.
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s neuroSURF program is for undergraduates interested in working in translational neurobiology labs at the institute. There are additional summer undergraduate research opportunities at VT which can be found on the VT Office for Undergraduate Research homepage.
Each summer, we are thrilled to welcome our new cohort of students to Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. View a list of our students by cohort year, from 2017 thorugh 2023.
Our Team
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Brooks Casas, Ph.D. , homeProfessor
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John C. Chappell, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor, Director, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health graduate program
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Pearl Chiu, Ph.D. , homeProfessor
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Stephanie DeLuca, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor and Co-Director, Neuromotor Research Clinic
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Alex DiFeliceantonio, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Shannon Farris, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Carla Finkielstein, Ph.D. , homeProfessor and Director, Virginia Tech Molecular Diagnostics Lab
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Roberta Freitas-Lemos, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Michael Friedlander, Ph.D. , homeVirginia Tech Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology and Executive Director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
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Christopher Hourigan, DM, DPhil, FRCP , homeProfessor, Director, Cancer Research Center – D.C.
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Brittany Howell, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor
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Stephen M. LaConte, Ph.D. , homeProfessor
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Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D. , homeProfessor and Director, Center for Neurobiology Research
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Samy Y. Lamouille, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Wynn Legon, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Sarah Lessard, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor
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Sumita Mishra, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Read Montague, Ph.D. , homeThe Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor and Director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Alexei Morozov, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Kathleen Mulvaney, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Jenny Munson, Ph.D. , homeProfessor, Director, Cancer Research Center – Roanoke
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Yuchin Albert Pan, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor and Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund Eminent Research Scholar in Developmental Neuroscience
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Ryan Purcell, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Zhi Sheng, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Sora Shin, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Jeff Stein, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Sharon Swanger, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Meike van der Heijden, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Matthew Weston, Ph.D. , homeAssociate Professor
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Cheng-Chia "Fred" Wu, M.D., Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Zhen Yan, Ph.D. , homeProfessor and Director, Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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Jia-Ray Yu, Ph.D. , homeAssistant Professor
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Alexandria Pilot Chambers, DHSc , redirectAssistant Director of Operations, Center for Neurobiology Research
News about neuroSURF
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Summer students share findings at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute symposium , articleDuring the programs at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, high school and university undergraduate students tackle research questions in the biomedical and health sciences.
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‘The real deal’: Students thrive and grow in summer hands-on research experiences , articleThis was the seventh summer of programs aimed at engaging and training the next generation of scientists. This year, 34 students from colleges in Virginia, North Carolina, and as far away as California, and from five area high schools, participated in summer undergraduate research fellowship programs at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expands Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program , articleMore than 30 undergraduate and high school students worked behind the curtain of biomedical research this summer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows present neurobiology and advanced imaging findings , articleThe Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC hosted 20 undergraduate students this summer for a 10-week experience in two research programs that explore neurobiology and cutting-edge imaging technology to visualize living systems.
Date: Aug 24, 2021
Contact Us
Alexandria Pilot Chambers, DHSc
Assistant Director of Operations, Center for Neurobiology Research
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, Virginia, 24016
apilot@vtc.vt.edu
540-526-2154