RICHMOND, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Steven DeLuca to serve as rector of VCU Board of Visitors Additionally, board members Neil Amin will serve as vice rector, and Harry Thalhimer will serve as secretary. - Steven DeLuca, vice president, head of state and local government affairs for Capital One Financial, will serve as rector of the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors. His nomination as rector was approved Monday, and his term will begin this Wednesday, July 1. "Ou more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Stravitz Sanyal liver institute at VCU opens Clinical Research Imaging Center to advance liver disease treatments The facility in Richmond, which includes a cutting-edge PET/CT scanner, will target conditions that have become global health challenges. By A.J. Hostetler, Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health A new imaging center at the Stravitz Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health at Virginia Commonwe more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina. *** Detecting and Alerting on Domain Fronting Within a Network ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 30 -- CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12671698 B2, initially filed Jan. 10, 2023) developed by David Arthur McGrew, Poolesville, Maryland, and Blake Harrell Anderson, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for "Detecting and alerting on domain fronting within a network." *** Aircraft Passenger Seat Assembly With more ST

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Sortation of Items Using an Image Fingerprint to Right the Items ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 30 -- UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Washington, District of Columbia has been assigned a patent (No. US 12668422 B2, initially filed Dec. 5, 2023) developed by Jason Force, Annandale, Virginia, and Wayne R. Perry-Eaton, Leesburg, Virginia, for "Sortation of items using an image fingerprint to right the items." *** Wagon With Folding Canopy for Carry more ST

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 30 -- VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, Richmond, Virginia has been assigned a patent (No. US 12667569 B2, initially filed Aug. 5, 2020) developed by five inventors Eleonora Mezzaroma, Glen Allen, Virginia; Christopher Rabender, Chesterfield, Virginia; Ross Mikkelsen, Richmond, Virginia; Vasily Yakovlev, Richmond, Virginia; and Neil Smith, Cary, North Carolina, for "Use of sepiapterin and metabolites thereof to treat radiation exposure." more PT

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation The state's Biomedical Research Diamond universities highlight collaboration across Virginia's research enterprise. By John Pastor The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops - and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. Tha more PR