The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Clinical Trials Toolkit Series will return this fall with a session Sept. 28. In the first entry in this series, Lisa Giblin Sutton and Traci Hinkle from WVU Medicine will present “Investigational Pharmacy: Improving Processes,” and “Set Up of Laboratory Testing: What Researchers Need to Know.”
Research
Diabetics are at least twice as likely as nondiabetics to die of heart disease. They’re also at a greater risk of heart attack. With a two-year, $53,000 fellowship from the American Heart Association, Quincy Hathaway, a doctoral candidate in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, is examining how a certain protein, called PNPase, influences mitochondria’s performance in heart cells.
Researchers will be presenting their work to the public at the 2018 West Virginia State Water Conference, Sept. 27-28 at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place.
Evansdale Library is offering a workshop about measuring and promoting your research on Thursday, September 20, from 2-3 p.m. in Room 130. Learn how to promote and measure the impact of your research, choose high-impact journals to publish in, and identify collaborators.
A West Virginia University astronomer is working to locate the origin of fast radio bursts coming from outside the Milky Way Galaxy. Sarah Burke-Spolaor, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has accepted a distinguished fellowship with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Azrieli Global Scholars Program.
A study from researchers at WVU and the University of Minnesota could change the way we look at aging in humans. Through a new discovery of the main driver of aging in cells, this research shows that it may be possible to slow the aging process.