Research Overview
The Fralin Life Science Institute fosters cutting edge, interdisciplinary research by providing high quality laboratory space, services, and equipment to eight faculty representing three departments and two different colleges. Resources include the Fralin Imaging Facility, and a pilot-scale fermentation facility. Fralin's eight resident research faculty run active well funded research programs.
Obesity
Obesity research at Virginia Tech focuses on the prevention and treatment of obesity using unique and comprehensive approaches including the development and evaluation of new foods, improved nutrition and food safety, and the adoption of health-promoting behaviors to prevent illness and reduce health costs.
Inflammation
Infectious Diseases
The infectious diseases research area focuses on reducing and managing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases including prevention and control, infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, molecular pathogenesis, and host-pathogen interactions.
Vector-Borne Disease
The mission of the Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Group is to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms involved in the transmission and pathogenesis of vector-borne infectious organisms and to deepen our understanding of the nature of infectious disease to lead the search for novel approaches to disease mitigation.
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Website for Vector Borne Research Group at Virginia Tech
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Vector Borne Research Group featured in the Winter 2008 edition of the Virginia Tech Research Magazine
Eukaryotic Cell Signaling
This area of research focuses on the biochemistry, cell biology, immunology, and molecular genetics of cells including the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and disease resistance, pathogen metabolism, metabolic engineering, and gene expression, regulation, and molecular genetics.
Other
The other research area is a mix of a number of different research programs focusing on topics such as instrument development for biomedical imaging, development of new diagnostic and therapy methods, and the development of biomimetics, biosensors, and biomaterials.
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