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Our commitment

Our commitment to research at the VCU School of Medicine is evident through our growing faculty size and graduate school enrollment, as well as the construction of new buildings to create more research space and expand critical core facilities.

In recent years, the school has seen a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of grants submitted to the National Institutes of Health and an increase in awarded NIH grant dollars during a time when many research institutions are seeing a decrease in funding.

The VCU School of Medicine now accounts for almost half of VCU’s sponsored research awards and for 87 percent of the university’s NIH funding.

Research

Areas of Research

Basic Laboratory Research
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Basic Laboratory Research

Areas of Basic Laboratory Research at VCU School of Medicine include: Addiction and Abuse of Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco, Allergy and Immunology, Cancer Biology, Cell and Molecular Signaling, Gastrointestinal Physiology and Hepatology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Molecular Cardiology and Vascular Disease, Neuroscience, Pathogenic Microbiology and Vaccinology,  and Reproductive Biology.

Clinical & translational research
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Clinical & translational research

Areas of clinical and translational research include: Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR), SOM Clinical Research Administration, Biostatistics, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolic Disease, Hepatitis C and HIV, Hepatitis C Coinfection, HIV/AIDS, Liver transplantation, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Public Health, Schizophrenia, Status epilepticus, Substance Abuse, Twin Studies, VCU Reanimation Engineering and Shock, Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network, Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering (CERSE), and Institute for Women's Health

Areas of Basic Laboratory Research

Below are several areas of Basic Laboratory Research that VCU School of Medicine supports.

Areas of Clinical and Translational Research

Below are the areas of clinical and translational research supported by VCU School of Medicine

Resources

VCU School of Medicine uses the following resources to conduct research

Center for Clinical and Translational Research.
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Center for Clinical and Translational Research

SOM Clinical Research Administration.
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SOM Clinical Research Administration

Office of Assessment and Evaluation Studies.
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Office of Assessment and Evaluation Studies

NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) .
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NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

National Women’s Health Information Center.
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National Women’s Health Information Center

VCU Institute for Women’s Health.
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VCU Institute for Women’s Health

VCU Office of Research.
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VCU Office of Research

VCU Across the Spectrum.
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VCU Across the Spectrum

Core Resources

Information about our core laboratories

For information about our core laboratories, please see the VCU Office of Research website.

Additional resources for clinical research are available within the SOM Clinical Research Administration group as well as the Center for Clinical and Translational Research website.Learn more

Facilities

Bricks and Mortar: The most recent additions to research space include the Goodwin Research Building, opened in 2005 to support research in the Massey Cancer Center, the Molecular Medicine Research Building (opened in 2009), the Pauley Heart Center (on the seventh floor of Sanger Hall, completed in fall 2012), the Massey Cancer Center vivarium (completed in fall 2012) and the expansion of space for our Structural Biology Core in the basement of the James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Medical Education Center (completed in fall 2013). All new labs are organized in an open lab format to encourage research collaboration. The receipt of an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award in 2010 led to the creation of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR), located in the old Richmond Academy of Medicine Building. The increased space for basic science research and creation of the CCTR has enabled us to move more easily toward the translation of basic science discoveries into new and novel treatments for patients.

Sanger Hall

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(486,495 GSF)

  • B3: Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Radiology, Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine
  • B2: Animal Resources
  • B1: Physiology, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Radiation Oncology
  • First Floor: Internal Medicine, SOM Research Administration, SOM Graduate and M.D.-Ph.D. programs
  • Second Floor: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Third Floor: Physiology and Biophysics
  • Fourth Floor: Radiology, Pathology
  • Fifth Floor: Microbiology, Physiology, Pathology
  • Sixth Floor: Neurology, Microbiology
  • Seventh Floor: Internal Medicine-Endocrine, Pauley Heart Center, Microbiology
  • Eighth Floor: Ophthalmology, Neurology, Surgery, Internal Medicine- Nephrology, Pediatrics, Radiology
  • Ninth Floor: Anatomy and Neurobiology, Microscopy Core Facility, Surgery
  • 10th Floor: anatomy dissection suite for students
  • 11th Floor: Anatomy and Neurobiology, Human and Molecular Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics
  • 12th Floor: Pediatrics, Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology

Kontos Medical Science Building

Kontos Medical Science Building (128,491 GSF) Kontos Medical Science Building exterior view [View Image]

  • Second Floor: Neurology, BSL3 Microbiology, Pediatrics

  • Third Floor: Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • Fourth Floor: Immunology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • Fifth Floor: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Sixth Floor: Neurology (Pharmacology and Toxicology), Pediatrics

  • Seventh Floor: Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neurosurgery

  • Eighth Floor: Animal Care

Molecular Medicine Research Building

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(125,000 GSF)

  • Second Floor: Physiology and Biophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Third Floor: Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • Fourth Floor: Human and Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Fifth Floor: Physiology and Biophysics, Internal Medicine

  • Sixth Floor: Internal Medicine

  • Seventh Floor: Human and Molecular Genetics (Institute for Molecular Medicine)

  • Eighth Floor: Animal Care (transgenic animals)

McGuire Hall and Annex

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(39,580 GSF)

  • First Floor: Internal Medicine, Microbiology

  • Third Floor: Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • Fourth Floor: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics

Smith Building

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(10,731 ASF)

  • B: Animal Care

  • Seventh Floor: Pharmacology and Toxicology

Goodwin Research Laboratory

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(71,000 GSF)

  • Floors 1 to 3 are all occupied by researchers in the Massey Cancer Center from the following departments: Human and Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Internal Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Microbiology and Immunology and Surgery.

BioTech I and Center

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(17,856 ASF)

  • First Floor: Human and Molecular Genetics, Biostatistics and Psychiatry (The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics; the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry)

  • Second Floor: Surgery

One Capital Square

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(72,000 GSF)

  • Floors 4 through 9 house Epidemiology and Community Health, Social and Behavioral Health, Healthcare Policy and Research and Biostatistics

Center for Addiction Research

Center for Addiction Research

  • 203 East Cary St.

  • To open July 1, 2013

  • Psychiatry, Radiology

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Michael Donnenberg, M.D. [View Image]

Michael Donnenberg, M.D.

Sr. Assoc. Dean for Research & Research Training

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Michael Donnenberg, M.D.

Sr. Assoc. Dean for Research & Research Training

Office of Research & Research Training

Phone: (804) 828-0673

Fax: (804) 827-1469

Email: michael.donnenberg@vcuhealth.org

Address/Location:
1101 E Marshall St, Sanger Hall, Room 1-055

Zakir Ullah, PhD [View Image]

Zakir Ullah, PhD

Scientific Proposals Review Administrator

Zakir Ullah, PhD [View Image]

Zakir Ullah, PhD

Scientific Proposals Review Administrator

Office of Research and Research Training

Phone: (804) 828-0272

Email: Zakir.Ullah@vcuhealth.org

Address/Location:
Physical: 1101 E Marshall St, Sanger Hall, Room 1-055

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Georgia Straton

Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean

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Georgia Straton

Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean

Office of the Senior Associate Dean for Research

Phone: (804) 828-0673

Fax: (804) 828-5022

Email: georgia.straton@vcuhealth.org

Address/Location:
Physical: 1101 E Marshall St, Sanger Hall, Room 1-055
Mailing: Box 980565 Richmond, VA 23298-0565

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