WVCTSI is pleased to welcome Kay Lund, director of the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce and extramural training officer with the NIH, for a special visit on Sept. 16. Lund will present “Navigating NIH Systems to Advance Your Career & Tips for Successful Grant Writing.”
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Dr. John C. Byrd will lecture on targeted therapies in leukemia at 4 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Okey Patteson Auditorium (Health Sciences Center-North). A Q&A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
According to Cyberseek.org, there are nearly 1,000 available jobs in the cybersecurity field in West Virginia. Nationwide, there are more than 313,000 open positions. With the aid of a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation, the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering hopes to prepare students to help meet the demand for these cybersecurity roles.
With the goal of promoting more cross campus collaboration, the Research Office is organizing an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Visualization and Biology/Medicine Networking event for Sept. 3 from 2:30 -4:30 p.m. in the Advanced Engineering Research Building, room 120.
The University invites all entrepreneurs, researchers and students from across West Virginia to participate in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps training program which will help prepare participants to accelerate their cutting-edge technologies and products into the marketplace. The deadline to apply is September 6.
Doctors at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute have treated the first patients in the world in a clinical trial to collect real-world, post-marketing data on the use of a new device for the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms.