Scientists, researchers, community leaders, clinicians and other professionals in the healthcare industry in Hampton Roads now have a state-of-the-art facility to collaborate on innovative projects and jump-start scientific research to address health disparities in the region.
The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC), a state-sponsored partnership among Old Dominion University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Healthcare and Norfolk State University, celebrated the opening of its headquarters on April 7 at ODU Tri-cities Center in Suffolk.
HRBRC was funded by Virginia lawmakers in 2020 to advance and serve as a catalyst for emerging research and economic drivers in Hampton Roads, while also addressing the region’s significant healthcare inequity and disparities. Since its creation, the consortium has secured $10 million in government grants and has another $15 million pending.
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The region can be a hub for health care and biomedical innovation thanks to collaborative efforts to launch the Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium and its research facility.
The consortium recently opened a facility located at Old Dominion University’s Tri-Cities Center on the Suffolk-Portsmouth border. Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Sentara Health make up the core of the group.
NORFOLK, Va. — The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) celebrated its grand opening Friday, showing off the new state-of-the-art facility.
HRBRC is a partnership between Old Dominion University (ODU), Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Sentara Healthcare and Norfolk State University (NSU).
The new facility has an “innovation and prototype lab,” which houses a digital anatomy printer that creates models replicating the same biomechanical properties as human tissue.
The new facility hopes to “understand and improve community health; fund and conduct critical projects; and develop a robust innovation pipeline in the region.”
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Medical professionals in Hampton Roads are getting new training tools thanks to the grand opening of a state-of-the-art training facility
Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium is behind the new facility.
The new facility features a digital anatomy printer that creates identical models of anything containing human tissue.
Health professionals will also soon be able to have access to a 5G living lab to practice procedures.
The facility hopes to advance research efforts between ODU, NSU and EVMS.
SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) is set to hold the grand opening for its new facility on Apr. 7.
The new state-of-the-art facility, located at 1040 University Blvd, aims to address health disparities, jumpstart science research and advance biohealth innovations in Hampton Roads.
The facility’s manager, Patrick Ball, said new technology that HRBRC’s lab received allows researchers to create realistic body parts within a quick turnaround time.
He showed an example of a prosthetic arm. The arm is a scan of a research doctor’s arm. Ball said the arm was made to look just like her arm, from her freckles to the wrinkles in her fingers.
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SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) is set to hold the grand opening for its new facility on Apr. 7.
The new state-of-the-art facility, located at 1040 University Blvd, aims to address health disparities, jumpstart science research and advance biohealth innovations in Hampton Roads.
The facility’s manager, Patrick Ball, said new technology that HRBRC’s lab received allows researchers to create realistic body parts within a quick turnaround time.