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  • Health Sciences Campus to host Mountaineer Week events

    Tuesday, October 16, 2018

    Mountaineer Week, WVU’s annual celebration of West Virginia heritage and culture, will make a stop at the Health Sciences Campus on Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on the Learning Center Green.

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  • Surgery Grand Rounds: Improving survival from the active shooter

    Tuesday, October 16, 2018

    The Department of Surgery will host Alexander L. Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS, FAEMS, for an upcoming Grand Round on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 8 – 9 a.m. in the Okey Patteson Auditorium.

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  • Community-based research town hall

    Thursday, October 11, 2018

    WVCTSI and the WVU Mountaineer Health Initiative are co-sponsoring a town hall meeting to highlight research taking place across the state. “Conversation and Collaboration: WVU Community-Based Researchers and Outreach Staff Making a Difference,” offers attendees the chance to learn about the range of community engaged research and outreach across the state, meet colleagues engaged in similar work, identify common issues, and ascertain better ways to support each other in the field.

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  • WVU researcher explores how an immune system problem may sabotage depression treatment

    Thursday, October 11, 2018

    A West Virginia University researcher is investigating how a type of white blood cell that makes antibodies, called a B cell, may influence whether depressed patients respond well to pharmacological treatment.

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  • NIH awards WVU $11.2 million for interdisciplinary cancer research

    Wednesday, October 10, 2018

    West Virginia University’s School of Pharmacy will soon become one of the few pharmacy schools in the nation that leads a center of biomedical research excellence. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, these centers support interdisciplinary, thematically related research into preventing, diagnosing and treating health problems. 

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