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Virtual Event: 4th Annual iTHRIV Scholars Clinical Translational Research Symposium

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Jeffery Morris, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., M.P.H., FACC

Professor of Medicine
Director and Senior Associate Dean
Clinical Research Center & Clinical and Translational Research
Morehouse School of Medicine

Virtual Event: 4th Annual iTHRIV Scholars Clinical Translational Research Symposium

Join us as we celebrate our iTHRIV scholars at the 4th Annual iTHRIV Scholars Clinical Translational Research  Symposium. The symposium includes a keynote address from Dr. Elizabeth Ofili and research lightning talks from our current cohort.

Oct. 19, 2021 

1:00 p.m. 

VTC Scholars include:
Julia Basso, Ph.D.
Alexandra DiFeliceantonio, Ph.D.
Brittany Howell, Ph.D.
Shawna Klahn, DVM
Sora Shin, Ph.D.

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About iTHRIV

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) is part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Carilion Clinic, and Inova Health System. iTHRIV aims to promote interdisciplinary research projects that help bring scientific innovations from the lab into clinical practice. iTHRIV also strives to address social equity, with the goal of implementing research that will benefit underserved populations across Virginia. The iTHRIV Scholars Program is supported in part by the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

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