The University is, undoubtedly, a game changer in discovering treatments and preventative care for some of the most chronic diseases plaguing the Mountain State, and part of the activator for such innovation is made possible through funds from the National Institutes of Health.
Research
As the University prepares to celebrate its sixth annual Research Week from April 1-5, many students have found purpose on campus through discovery and innovation. “We would not be an R1 institution if not, in part, for the drive and determination of our student researchers,” Vice President for Research Fred King said.
Awarded in conjunction with West Virginia University Day of Giving, the grant supports coordinated efforts to expand focused ultrasound research at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute by enrolling additional patients in clinical trials, acquiring more equipment and hiring skilled personnel.
An artificial intelligence tool West Virginia University health data scientists are developing could lessen medication errors that send recently discharged patients back to the hospital while reducing health care costs.
Sarah Beth Childers, who knew she’d write about her brother’s death soon after he died by suicide in 2012, tells a story of love, loss, grief and reckoning with catalysts both internal and external that compelled her beloved brother to live a life outside their family’s norms.
West Virginia University engineers working in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources have received a wave of federal support for research projects that will help slash the cost of clean hydrogen. The three U.S. Department of Energy grants for WVU studies total $15.8 million.