WVU will retire the Flex protocol for new submissions on Nov. 9 as part of the transition to the new Institutional Review Board module in the Research Administration Portal. This change won’t affect current Flex studies in WVU+kc, and Flex studies approved before Nov. 9 will be migrated to WRAP.
Research
Undergraduates from all majors are encouraged to submit abstracts showcasing their scholarly work to be presented at the 8th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium from 1–5 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Mountainlair.
A study led by Zheng Dai, assistant director of health analytics at the WVU Health Affairs Institute, suggests consuming alcohol with fentanyl and other drugs may explain, in part, why more men than women die from unintentional overdoses.
To support a five-year National Institutes of Health grant submission, the Office of Research is compiling a list of all University researchers who conduct research on aging.
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute released a document outlining the expansion of Clinical Trials Center of Excellence registration requirements to include any human clinical trial or prospective observational clinical study being conducted at WVU.
For the past year, Kyle Carpe has been researching whether giving cancer treatment at a specific time of day could better treat breast cancer that has spread to the brain.