Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Creating a healthier future. For everyone.
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC makes transformative scientific advances that address the fundamental processes of human and animal health and disease. The only university-level institute at Virginia Tech dedicated to biomedical research, the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute trains the next generation of leading biomedical scientists while also facilitating discovery-based medical education.
What Do You Do When Your Body Is Its Own Enemy?
‘The doctors told my parents I would never walk and that I would never talk’
How Does a Brain Even Happen?
Cancer Researchers Spurred to Move Faster at the Cancer Research Symposium
Defying Imagination, One Step at a Time
Focused Ultrasound at Virginia Tech
Teen Brain Study
Brain School Brings Neuroscience to Life
Postdoctoral Excellence Awards celebrate promising scientific research
What If Sound Could Heal?
Why Don’t I Slosh When I Walk?
What Makes a Heart Stop?
Are We Eating Ourselves to Death?
Unlocking Secrets of the Mind
Groundbreaking Virginia Tech Graduate Program marks decade of transdisciplinary education
Warren Bickel, global pioneer in addiction recovery research, leaves lasting legacy
IBEC 2026
Virginia Tech students, early career researchers engage at employee appreciation day
Virginia Tech professor to be Inducted into prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation
Eminent cancer physician-scientist joins Virginia Tech to lead research in Washington, D.C.
Community learns about ‘The Craving Brain: Food and Drugs’ during Brain School outreach events
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute: Advancing Health Through Science
It’s the ‘thing in my life that shaped me the most,’ participant says of life-changing therapy
Henrietta Lacks sculptures unveiled where her legacy thrives
Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture: Machine Learning and Human Thought - A Modern Frontier
Landmark $50 million gift to dramatically expand health sciences research at Virginia Tech
The Joys of Being a Clinician Researcher
Molecule‘s normal function could inform treatments for a variety of brain disorders
2023 Virginia Tech Cancer Alliance Retreat
Cancer researchers team up against deadliest brain tumors in children