Dear colleagues and friends of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute,

As summer approaches, we are preparing to welcome four to five new faculty research team leaders and their research groups to the institute. Stay tuned for news stories with more details about their backgrounds, their laboratories' goals, and projects in cardiovascular science and human neuroscience.

We are also in the process of actively recruiting the first brain cancer research team to work in the brand new Virginia Tech laboratories located on the Children's National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C.

Please be sure to join us for our final Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture of the season, "Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia," presented by Dr. Emery Brown on May 6. Registration for this virtual event is open, and we hope you will tune in.
 
Meanwhile, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute faculty continue to be awarded multiple new National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants with over $20 million in new awards in 2021 so far, enabling new innovations in brain, behavior, cancer and cardiovascular research. Included among those new awards are several individual fellowships to our graduate students. This success represents the continuing and growing recognition of the research institute’s faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and our exceptional biomedical research environment by peers at the national level.

In the spirit of Ut Prosim,

Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology, Virginia Tech