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Archived Event: Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance - Uniting Technology, Resources and People for Innovations to End Cancer

Panel Discussion presented by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

Archived Event: Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance - Uniting Technology, Resources and People for Innovations to End Cancer

Date: Nov. 10, 2020
Time: 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. 

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“This research makes me proud to be a Hokie. Ut Prosim! Thank you for having this broadcast. I hope you’ll be doing more!!”

                    – Frank Eak, '77

About This Seminar 

Three of Virginia Tech’s cancer researchers discuss their interdisciplinary approach to discovering treatments and therapeutics for some of cancer’s severest forms.

Collage of headshots of Michael Friedlander, Carla Finkielstein, Jenny Munson and Eli

Moderator

  • Michael Friedlander, Ph.D., Vice president for health sciences and technology and executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. 

Panelists

  • Carla Finkielstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science; Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Jenny Munson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, College of Engineering
  • Eli Vlaisavljevich, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech

Additional Details 

This is a free event hosted by Dr. Michael Friedlander and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. For more information, please call 540-526-2059 or send an e-mail. 

 

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