Fralin Biomedical Research Institute

Parents who have children with a disability often struggle to find the right type of therapy to help their kids. Sometimes, just a few weeks of intensive therapy can help children and their parents go on to make more progress at home. That’s what happened for two sisters with a rare neurological condition. They each traveled with their family from Pittsburgh, where they live, to Roanoke to work with therapists at the neuromotor clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.

Researchers at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have recieved a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, for a groundbreaking…

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Virginia Tech announced its largest ever gift Thursday. But it won’t be going to Blacksburg. Instead, it will be used to transform medical research in…