Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I want to share several recent exciting developments in our mission to improve health and to prevent, diagnose, and treat disorders.
First, two colleagues recently joined us. Dr. Zhen Yan is the inaugural director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research, a professor and primary faculty member of the research institute, and a professor in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr. Matt Weston, a leading researcher in the genetics of seizure disorders in children, joins us as an associate professor and primary faculty member in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research and as an associate professor in the School of Neuroscience in the College of Science.
We are also excited to report that Dr. Brittany Howell, an assistant professor at the institute, is leading Virginia Tech’s participation in a nationwide project to better understand the long-term effects of maternal opioid use and other factors on brain and child development. Virginia Tech joins 25 participating sites in the nationwide HEALthy Brain and Child Development study (HBCD), which involves several NIH institutes and centers, including the Helping End Addiction Longterm (HEAL) initiative.
Expect to hear more in the coming months about this work and other exciting developments from our faculty.
Yours truly 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
Senior Dean for Research, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Professor, Biological Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Affiliated Faculty, School of Biomedical Engineering and Science
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