The morning session featured an overview of the university’s research enterprise, including reports from the school of medicine, school of pharmacy, graduate education and the university’s biomedical engineering program, among others.
Afternoon activities included a greeting from University President Jerome “Jerry” Gilbert and a presentation by F. Heath Damron, Ph.D., a Marshall alumnus who is an assistant professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and cell biology at West Virginia University, as well as a report from Zijian Xie, Ph.D., director of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR.)
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Photo: Marshall University President Jerome “Jerry” Gilbert visits with students during a poster session at the 2016 Marshall University Health Sciences Research Retreat at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall on the Huntington campus. The annual event brings together health science researchers from across the university.