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Kiefer will use the funding to support vital work to advance clinical trials for children with congenital myotonic dystrophy, a disease characterized by low muscle tone and difficulty breathing.

After a summer program at Yale University, Megan Castle returned to VCU School of Medicine eager to help her peers learn about bioethics.

A VCU Commercialization Fund award will help Michael Hindle and P. Worth Longest test a platform that repairs the lung's surfactant layer while delivering a drug to the same tissue.

The Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies spotlights substance use policy in Virginia.

A seed grant through the Wright Center offered crucial support for TACIT — an AI tool for reading human tissue cell by cell — and catalyzed a spinout that has since expanded to build virtual tissues for precision medicine.

School of Business marketing professor Suzanne Makarem says physician-influencers may carry more impact than a follower’s own doctor, and ‘that should give us pause.’

The new research-based clinic, led by psychologists Ann Haynos and Bek Urban, accepts adolescents and adults statewide while developing a new generation of practitioners.

Based in the School of Public Health, the center will unite expertise across VCU to advance the science of gun violence prevention and translate evidence into strategies that save lives.