Maier Foundation awards $300K to help WVU students ravaged by summer flooding
A $300,000 grant from the Maier Foundation will help students who were hit hard by last summer’s flooding attend West Virginia University.
Health Research
Team of WVU students develop system to track lab animals, will compete in SXSW
It currently takes 10 years and more than $1 billion to get a promising drug from the bench to the bedside in the U.S. pharmaceutical market, but a team of three West Virginia University graduate students have developed a new solution to the archaic and inefficient use of laboratory animals in testing these drugs.
$6 million goes to Marshall and WVU to aid research and rural health
More than $6 million remaining in a court settlement account has been transferred to West Virginia University and Marshall University. The funds were split equally between the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at WVU and the Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health at Marshall under a court order issued by Judge David W. Hummel of Marshall County, West Virginia, in late November.