<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Program Leadership</span>

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Michael Friedlander, Ph.D.

Executive Director, VTCRI

Associate Provost for Health Sciences, Virginia Tech

Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Virginia Tech

Co-Investigator, BEST Award

Audra Van Wart, Ph.D.

Director of Education and Training, VTCRI

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, VTCSoM

Co-Investigator, BEST Award

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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Program Coordinator:</span>

Carrie Covey

BEST Program Coordinator

Faculty of Health Sciences Coordinator

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Advisory Board:</span>

Karen Depauw, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School, Virginia Tech

Derrick Maggard, Executive Director of the Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council

Kenneth Wong, Ph.D., Interim Director of VT’s Northern Virginia Center, Associate Dean of the Graduate School

Dennis Dean, Ph.D., Director of Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Director of Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Sam English, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Attention Point; President of the Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council