Thousands of women with breast cancer may be spared chemotherapy, landmark study shows The study, co-authored by a VCU physician-researcher, shows chemotherapy does not increase disease-free survival rates for women with early stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of recurrence. Read more »
City of Richmond, outlying counties lead region in income growth, VCU study finds Goochland County showed the biggest percentage increase in median household income from 2000 to 2016, at 46.2 percent. Income growth in Richmond increased by 32.3 percent during that timeframe. Read more »
Biology professor, students use clues from plants to unlock the natural world’s evolutionary secrets Wenheng Zhang and students in her lab study plants and their genes. Their research could lead to knowledge of critical areas in need of environmental protection. Read more »
VCU researchers are developing a device to restore a person’s sense of smell A CEO with smell loss is funding the technology, which would aid the sensory transmission and interpretation functions of the olfactory system. Read more »
Meet Calumma uetzi, a rainbow-colored chameleon from Madagascar named after a VCU professor The chameleon is named after Peter Uetz, an associate professor in VCU Life Sciences who created the Reptile Database, a catalog of more than 10,000 species relied upon by scientists around the world. Read more »
Massey becomes first treatment center in Virginia to offer FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapy VCU Massey Cancer Center is now an official treatment center for Yescarta™ by Kite Pharma for adult patients living with certain types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (recurrent or refractory B-cell lymphoma), making it the first treatment center in Virginia to offer an FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapy. 7/11/2018
Thousands of women with breast cancer may be spared chemotherapy, landmark study shows The study, co-authored by a VCU physician-researcher, shows chemotherapy does not increase disease-free survival rates for women with early stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of recurrence. 7/2/2018
Infection process of this lesser-known disease could shed light on treating cancer VCU researchers have discovered how a pathogen that causes scrub typhus infects cells. The finding could lead to methods to treat the disease and conditions such as cancer, autoimmunity and inflammation. 6/27/2018
City of Richmond, outlying counties lead region in income growth, VCU study finds Goochland County showed the biggest percentage increase in median household income from 2000 to 2016, at 46.2 percent. Income growth in Richmond increased by 32.3 percent during the same period of time. 6/25/2018
VCU Health breaks ground on $349M outpatient facility Largest investment in VCU Health’s history is expected to set new standards for patient experience in academic health care. 6/22/2018
Template to create superatoms, created by VCU researchers, could make for better batteries The superatoms — combinations of atoms that can mimic the properties of more than one group of elements of the period table — could be used to improve semiconductors found in computerized devices. 6/21/2018
50 years after Virginia’s first heart transplant, $1M gift breathes new life into historic lab “How in the world do you thank anyone for saving your life three times?” It’s a poignant question for David Cottrell. 6/20/2018