Posts Tagged ‘ITMI’
UVA, Inova award research seed funding grants to joint research teams
The Inova Health System (Inova) and the University of Virginia (UVA) announced today that they have awarded $450,000 to nine UVA-Inova joint research teams for projects focused on how to better predict, prevent and treat disease. In the fall of 2016, Inova and UVA announced a comprehensive research and education partnership to accelerate joint discovery…
Read MoreBRCA Testing Gets a Lot of Attention. Is It Right For You?
Amanda Schott, MS, is a clinical cancer genetic counselor at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI). Read Amanda Schott’s profile. The Washington Post recently published a profile of Alejandra Campoverdi, a former White House staffer who decided to run for Congress in her native Los Angeles. While she didn’t win that nomination, Campoverdi is making…
Read MoreInova Translational Medicine Receives $9.5M Award from NIH to Study Environmental Influences on Child Health
Grant is part of a larger consortium award led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center Falls Church, VA – October 3, 2016 – Inova Health System announced that the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) has been awarded a $9.5M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study environmental…
Read MoreMen and BRCA Testing: What You Need To Know
Sarah Ruppert, MS, CGC, is a certified genetic counselor and genetics program supervisor at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. Read Sarah Ruppert’s profile. If you’re familiar with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, odds are good you think of them as “breast cancer genes.” Indeed, mutations in these two genes are associated with a significantly increased…
Read MoreGenetic Counselors In Growing Demand as Genetic Testing Takes Off
Benjamin D. Solomon leads the Medical Genomics Division at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. He performs genome-based research to find the causes of patients’ genetic disorders and is also involved in the clinical care of patients with genetic conditions. He is board certified in clinical genetics and pediatrics. Read Dr. Solomon’s profile. Last year, a…
Read MoreInova Genome News: We’ve Come a Long Way
January 2016 The First 1000 Days of Life…and Beyond Study We’ve Come a Long Way Hello Families of the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) “The First 1000 Days of Life…and Beyond” study. This newsletter is the first to celebrate the enrollment of 2,500 families and the third birthdays of our oldest participants. We will be…
Read MoreHow complicated is precision medicine? Inova-GMU proteomics partnership gives us a glimpse, Washington Business Journal, December 21, 2015
When Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Inova Health System and George Mason University will partner on precision medicine, he revealed a major component of the deal would include $1 million toward a new joint center for studying proteomics. Read more. TweetPinShare0 Shares
Read MoreGovernor McAuliffe Announces Strategic Partnership Between Inova and George Mason University to Advance Personalized Medicine Translational Research
FALLS CHURCH, VA – Today Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a strategic partnership between Inova, the largest health system in Northern Virginia, and George Mason University, the largest public research university in Virginia, to conduct translational research and share resources for the benefit of patients, the community and the region. This collaboration will advance Inova’s personalized…
Read MoreAt McAuliffe’s urging, Inova and George Mason to team on personalized medicine,The Washington Post, December 22, 2015
Northern Virginia’s largest hospital system and one of its signature universities announced a strategic partnership Tuesday involving personalized medicine, considered one of the commonwealth’s most promising areas of medical research and economic growth. Read more. TweetPinShare0 Shares
Read MoreYear in Review 2015: Inova’s $180 million bet on a ‘personalized health’ campus (Video), Washington Business Journal, December 17, 2015
For months, rumors had swirled that Inova Health System planned to buy Exxon Mobil’s 117-acre campus in Merrifield. That made it no less newsworthy in February when officials finally announced they’d closed a $180 million deal to acquire the site across the street from the health system’s flagship Fairfax Hospital. Read more. TweetPinShare0 Shares
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