A $3.85 million NIH trial led by Melanie Bean, Ph.D., tests whether behavior coaches on video can deliver the intensive treatment national guidelines recommend but few teens ever get.

Pascal Medical and Perfusion Medical each received $800,000 from Virginia Catalyst to fund critical studies.

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Mary Helen Hackney, M.D., is the first person to receive the Commonwealth Endowed Professorship in Breast Cancer Excellence.

The gift is dedicated to supporting the new building that will house VCU School of Dentistry.

The Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at VCU will team with the Virginia Department of Health to manage data collection for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.

Professors from the School of Medicine and College of Engineering are collaborating on work that could lead to new drug targets in dystrophinopathy and other neurodegenerative conditions.

The five-year award will support Massey in its work to develop the next generation of cancer researchers and to help those most at risk for cancer throughout Virginia.

The report also recognized the hospital as the best in the metro Richmond area for the 16th consecutive year. Additionally, cardiology and orthopaedics are ranked among the nation’s best.