Virginia Tech to establish D.C. research facility focused on pediatric health

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Virginia Tech to establish D.C. research facility focused on pediatric health

By NICK ANDERSON The Washington Post
8 hrs ago

Virginia Tech plans to launch a biomedical research facility in the District of Columbia by early 2021, focused on pediatric health, in a venture with Children’s National Hospital that will expand the university’s presence in the capital region.

The collaboration, announced Thursday, will establish four or five Virginia Tech research teams on a campus Children’s National is developing at the site of what was once the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington.

The university expects to spend $5 million to $10 million to establish the teams and laboratories in a 12,000-square-foot space that officials said will be ready in late 2020 or early 2021. Virginia Tech will hire new faculty for the initiative. It expects the research will draw students from its medical school and biomedical research institute in Roanoke and the main campus in Blacksburg.

Kurt Newman, the children’s hospital’s president and chief executive, hailed the partnership as an advance for the project, called the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus. “Together, we can really jump forward,” he said.
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Michael Friedlander, vice president for health sciences and technology at Virginia Tech, said the “singular focus” of the university’s D.C. research center will be on cancers of the brain and nervous system that afflict children.
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