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The Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology builds relationships across the university community and with the Virginia Tech’s health care partners at Carilion Clinic and Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., to address today’s major health care challenges. Headquartered on the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, the office supports research conducted by world-class scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and across Virginia Tech's Faculty of Health Sciences. The office also supports hands-on translational research training and mentorship through the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program, undergraduate research programs, and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

Welcome from the Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology
Advances in improving human health are crucial in today's world, with new challenges emerging regularly. We’re bringing a focused approach to growth in the health sciences, working with strong partners and building on Virginia Tech’s historical excellence in engineering, computation, technology, and our established strengths in the biomedical sciences, life sciences, and health sciences research. We’re boosting Southwest Virginia’s profile as an important place to be for medical research by building infrastructure and bringing in more talented scientists and students. We’re reaching across the university and the state to tap research interests and resources for the best science possible.
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Article Item‘Every time we wait, we lose someone who might have made it’ , article Date: Jun 27, 2025 -
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Article ItemNeuroscientist explores ways to reduce seizures in children , article Date: Jun 16, 2025 -
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Article ItemNew study aims to improve treatment for pediatric brain cancer , article Date: Jun 09, 2025 -
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Article ItemVirginia Tech student named Goldwater Scholar , article Date: Jun 02, 2025 -
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
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Home ItemSeminar: Thalamocortical Networks for Flexible Cognition: Circuit Computations to Clinical Applications , home
June 30, 2025, at 11 a.m. | Michael Halassa, M.D. , Ph. D., Director of Translational Research, Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine | Seminar
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Redirect Item2025 Vascular and Heart Research Symposium , redirect
Aug. 18-19, 2025 | Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC | 4 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, Virginia
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Redirect Item20th International Biochemistry of Exercise Conference , redirect
June 1-5, 2026 | IBEC 20206: Exercise and Healthspan | Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
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