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  Principal Investigator

Alex DiFeliceantonio, Ph.D.

Dr. DiFeliceantonio is an assistant professor in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and in Virginia Tech’s Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She is also associate director of the research institute's Center for Health Behaviors Research, and an iTHRIV Scholar, part of the integrated Translational Research Institute of Virginia.

 

Our Team

Postdoctoral Associates

Research Assistants

Graduate and Medical Students

Research Support

Collaborators

  • Monica Ahrens, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Virginia Tech
  • Warren Bickel, Ph.D.,  Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor; Director, Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
  • Brenda Davy, Ph.D., RDN, Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech
  • Alexandra Hanlon, Ph.D., Director, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science (CBHDS), Co-Director, iTHRIV Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Methods Core, Virginia Tech
  • Matt Howe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Neuroscience, College of Science, Virginia Tech
  • Read Montague, Ph.D., Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor, Director, Center for Human Neuroscience Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

Undergraduate Student Volunteers

  • Rhianna Sullivan, Neuroscience, Virginia Tech
  • Abigail Valle, Biology, Virginia Tech
  • Wenjing Yu, Neuroscience/Integrated Health Sciences Research, Virginia Tech
  • Han Lee, Biology/Integrated Health Sciences Research, Virginia Tech
  • Anastasia Groccia, Clinical Neuroscience, Virginia Tech

Past Students

  • Jon Dotson, TOURS Scholar, Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech (2022)
  • Mufaro Chiduza, NeuroSURF, Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore College (2022)
  • Stella Sun, Center for Health Behaviors Research Summer Fellow, Blacksburg High School (2022)
  • Harpreet Dhami, Biology, Virginia Tech (2021-2022)
  • Reese Robers, Roanoke Valley Govenor's School, (2021-2022)
  • Jewel Mayo, Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech (2021)
  • Lindsey Accree, Neuroscience, Virginia Tech
  • Arjiit Pradham, Biology, Virginia Tech

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