The FY19 Defense Appropriation provides $10 million to the Department of Defense Chronic Pain Management Research Program to support research of exceptional scientific merit with the potential to make a significant impact on improving the health and quality of life of Service members, Veterans, and all Americans living with chronic pain.
Research
The WVU community is encouraged to attend the 11th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday (July 25) at the Erickson Alumni Center.
The Revised Common Rule, effective Jan 21, 2019, changed consent form requirements for human subject research. If you are submitting a new study to the IRB, please use the new forms. New study submissions using old forms will have to be corrected.
Research led by Jianhai Du, a researcher in the School of Medicine, explores how the RPE nourishes the retina. His findings may suggest new treatments that make incurable vision problems curable.
Mendeley is a citation manager that helps you collect, organize, format and share citations. Mendeley also allows users to insert citations while writing a paper and creating a bibliography and to network and collaborate with other researchers. Come learn the basics July 23, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Health Sciences Center, Room LC2.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia University received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund the new Center for Kinetic Experiment, Theory and Integrated Computation Physics. The center will integrate experimental, theoretical and computational efforts to investigate some of the most important aspects of kinetic-scale physics in plasmas.