Construction continues on the joint Virginia Tech-Carilion Medical School in Roanoke that will accept its first class in 2010.
The Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute presented five $30,000 seed grants to aid in joint research between Tech and Carilion Clinic researchers for several medical issues including cancer, obesity, technology, infectious disease and heart care.
Eric Earnhart, spokesman for Carilion Clinic, said that Carilion has participated in its own research for some time, but now it will work with Tech on collaborative research projects, in addition to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, which will welcome its first class in 2010.
"Carilion has been researching for some time, but now we have given grants out to Virginia Tech to help aid in their research," Earnhart said. "Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is going to be completely different in the fact that it will be a cooperative effort between Tech and Carilion to work on research."
Carrie Boyd, administrative director of sponsored projects for Carilion, said that Carilion and Tech both have their strengths in different areas, so when the two entities combine, many opportunities will be formed from that relationship.
"Virginia Tech has its strengths in research, and Carilion has its strengths in patient care, so when we end up combining both of those strengths, we are going to have great opportunities arise for research," Boyd said.
Boyd said that the seed grant money is used mainly to fund support for graduate students participating in the research on campus, along with funding for some supplies.
"What Carilion has to offer is the patient care side of things," Boyd said. "Tech asks our physicians to pull information that they are able to use in their research."
"One of the projects, for example, is working on screening for cardiovascular risk in women that are pregnant," Earnhart said. "We are able to have our doctors and physicians work in collaboration with the researchers at Tech on the project. Tech has the means to do the research, and we have the doctors who are able to take that research and apply it to patients that they have right now."
Earnhart said that this joint opportunity would allow Tech's research results to be sent out to the doctors at Carilion as soon as they are found.
"Virginia Tech has the ability to compare and conduct the research, and we then have a way to quickly access that information," Earnhart said. "Tech is able to look at the research from Carilion and get the information out of it to solve medical problems. It is important that Carilion can provide the data, because Tech is then able to generate conclusions and results."
Carilion will work closely with Tech to ensure it provides all of the medical information necessary to aid in the research, Earnhart said.
"The Research Institute itself is a way for Virginia Tech to be involved in medical research," Earnhart said. "It would be difficult without the access to Carilion medical information because then Tech would not have a good basis for their research."
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