Graduate Studies | Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fifty percent of all human disease is related to the nervous system.
Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases Sometimes the world’s most notorious killers are all but forgotten in the United States.
Health Behaviors

Health Behaviors How is it that a depressed individual may value nothing at all, whereas an addict might value drug consumption at the expense of all else?
Cancer Biology

Cancer Biology What if we could visualize the origins of cancer in such exquisite detail that we could interrupt its very genesis?
Human Development

Human Development Children’s earliest experiences help determine their health and well-being throughout life.
Cardiovascular Science

Cardiovascular Science How do you heal a broken heart?

Invent the future through PhD studies with leading biomedical and behavioral scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Faculty

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute faculty are unconstrained by conventional disciplinary boundaries as they pursue transformational research in disorders ranging from autism to cancer to traumatic brain injury.

Technologies

The Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute houses the world’s premiere human functional neuroimaging facility in a new, state-of-the-art 100,000-square-foot building that is adjacent to an affiliated medical school.

Degree Programs

Degree Programs

PhD students can invent the future by working with Institute faculty to earn doctorates in biochemistry, biological sciences, biomedical engineering, biomedical sciences and pathobiology, chemistry, electrical and computer engineering, physics, and psychology.

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