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At one point in his college years, Jeffrey Byrd didn’t know whether his calling in life was to be a health professional or a computer nerd. Luckily, he found a job where he was able to be both of these things at West Virginia University’s WellWVU. A student worker job he picked up over the…
Marshall University has received a $2.5 million gift from the BrickStreet Insurance Foundation Inc. to establish a research endowment. The donation is expected to be matched through the state’s “Bucks for Brains” West Virginia Research Trust Fund, for a total benefit to Marshall of $5 million. Proceeds from the endowment will be used to support…
Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (“Protea”) a leader in the bioanalytics industry, announces the use of its proprietary LAESIâ technology to allow scientists the ability for the first time to look inside cells in their native state to discover new molecular markers for diagnosing human disease. Steve Turner, CEO of Protea, said, “Much of the new…
Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (“Protea”), a leading bioanalytics technology company, announces that Stephen Turner, the company’s CEO, presented at the 15th Annual Needham & Co. Growth Conference on Tuesday January 15, at the Palace Hotel in New York City. Mr. Turner will be discussing the Company’s groundbreaking LAESI technology platform and how the company is…
Yong Yang, an assistant chemical engineering professor at West Virginia University’s Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, is creating a system that mimics the human brain’s cell function to help unlock the clues to curing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s an in vitro system – an artificial environment occurring outside a living organism –…
After a 10-year career with the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, L. Clark Hansbarger, M.D., associate vice president for health sciences and dean of the WVU School of Medicine’s Charleston Division, will retire effective June 30, 2013. Chancellor Christopher Colenda, M.D., M.P.H., who announced the retirement, will appoint a committee to conduct a national search for Dr. Hansbarger’s successor.…