Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA·Public·Medical school
19 labs on PI Pages. It spends $524M a year on research and awards 438 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 30,974: 22,932 undergraduates, 8,042 graduate
- Postdocs
- 185
- Faculty
- 2,149 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Aliza Ehrlich
Neuroscience
Determine how agonist-induced desensitization, internalization and phosphorylation regulate the mu opioid receptor (MOR) at the neuronal primary cilium, the cell's antenna-like projection.
Larisa Litovchick
Pharmacology
Test whether high levels of chondroitin-4-sulfate (C4S), a sulfated sugar chain on tumor cells, contribute to platinum resistance in ovarian cancer, using mouse tumor models.
Margaret Thomas Freeberg
Physiology·Early-career
Characterize how the mechanoreceptor Piezo2, a membrane channel that opens under mechanical force, drives metabolic adaptation to increased matrix stiffness, using lung fibroblasts from IPF and non-fibrotic donors.
Monica Swahn
Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine how Socioeconomic Strengthening Targeted Training (SeSTT), a vocational skills program, changes the pathway from poverty to mental illness among young women aged 18–24 in Kampala's informal settlements, using a 27-month prospective cohort.
Nicholas Thomson
Psychology
Test whether Elevate VR, a brief hospital-based virtual reality program teaching de-escalation, emotion regulation and gun safety, reduces firearm violence, re-injury and death in a randomized controlled trial of 360 violently injured youth and their caregivers.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.