Research Centers and Focus Areas
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Home ItemAddiction Recovery Research Center , home
Researchers in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute's Addiction Recovery Research Center (ARRC) work to understand addiction and develop new treatments that restore healthy decision-making in patients suffering from substance use disorders.
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Home ItemCancer Research Center –D.C. , home
Cancer is a national health problem. Researchers based in our nation’s capital focus on basic, translational, and computational approaches with the shared aim of “engineering cancer solutions.”
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Home ItemCancer Research Center – Roanoke , home
Each year, more than 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and some 600,000 die of it. At the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, research teams are at work to combat the disease.
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Home ItemCenter for Exercise Medicine Research , home
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research explores the role of exercise in preventing cardiovascular, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer, which account for more than 75% of health care costs in the United States.
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Home ItemCenter for Health Behaviors Research , home
The Center for Health Behaviors Research conducts transformative health behaviors research with the primary objectives of prevention and treatment of life-style related diseases.
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Home ItemCenter for Human Neuroscience Research , home
Research in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute's Center for Human Neuroscience Research covers a range of fields, including neuroscience, magnetometry, computational psychiatry, psychology, political science, and economics.
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Home ItemCenter for Neurobiology Research , home
The most complex of all organ systems, the brain is composed of hundreds of billions of neural cells that are interconnected and work in concert to produce an array of human behaviors.
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Home ItemCenter for Vascular and Heart Research , home
The Center for Vascular and Heart Research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute serves as a nexus for research teams exploring basic research questions about the heart.
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Home ItemNeuromotor Research Clinic , home
The Neuromotor Research Clinic has pioneered the use of high-intensity therapeutic interventions. These treatments have allowed children with weakness on one side of their bodies - a hallmark of a form of cerebral palsy called hemiparesis - to make large, rapid, and enduring gains in mobility and everyday neuromotor skills.
Other Research Enterprises
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Redirect ItemChildren's National Hospital Research and Innovation Campus , redirect
Virginia Tech and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, in a partnership with Children's National Hospital, occupy 12,000 square feet of space on the hospital's research and innovation campus in Washington, D.C. The campus is located on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the northwest section of the city.
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Home ItemVirginia Tech Molecular Diagnostics Lab , home
The Virginia Tech Molecular Diagnostics Lab, located at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, launched in April, 2020 to help expand public health testing capacity in Southwest Virginia. The lab receives samples from health department and does not collect samples directly from patients or facilities.
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Home ItemNational Pediatric Rehabilitation Resource Center (C-PROGRESS) , home
This NIH-funded center is one of six national centers within the Medical Rehabilitation Resource Network. The center helps clinical scientists studying pediatric rehabilitation by funding pilot studies, providing mentorship, and offering training and tools to support clinical trials research.