Longtime WVU health research leader reflects on career she never expected

June 16, 2023

Laura Gibson’s 31-year career at West Virginia University has spanned various roles including mentor, science researcher and top-level administrator. However, none of those were what she ever anticipated when she stepped foot on the campus as a first-generation undergraduate student, nor what some told her she could accomplish at the same institution where she earned her Ph.D. The senior associate vice president for research and graduate education at WVU Health Sciences and associate dean for research at the School of Medicine, Gibson is set to retire July 1. “The University ...

Nebraska Medicine Bariatrics Center is first customer for Endolumik’s Gastric Calibration Tube, developed in Morgantown

June 13, 2023

MORGANTOWN — Local surgical device company Endolumik has started commercial sales of its innovative Gastric Calibration Tube, with its first client being the Nebraska Medicine Bariatrics Center. In its recent announcement, Endolumik cited Dr. Corrigan McBride, chief of General Surgery, ...

Gupta, Marsh, Gee field press questions on addiction issues

June 8, 2023

MORGANTOWN – Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, joined with Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean for WVU Health Sciences, and WVU President Gordon Gee to field some questions about addiction issues from West Virginia reporters ...

Dr. Rahul Gupta comes to WVU to highlight addiction crisis, research and prevention work

June 8, 2023

MORGANTOWN – Dr. Rahul Gupta returned to West Virginia on Thursday for a series of events addressing the state's and the nation's overdose epidemic. He came to WVU to join with various leaders in a roundtable discussion and later toured the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institutes to learn ...

Dunbar School Foundation board members tour Stop building, note items missing

June 7, 2023

MORGANTOWN – Members of the Dunbar School Foundation board toured the former headquarters of the now-defunct DSF Stop program on Wednesday. DSF President Houston Richardson noted that while the interior is in good condition, several items purchased with public funds were not in the ...

Capito tours Mon Health, gets a look at innovations and programs

June 5, 2023

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito took a tour of Mon Health Medical Center Monday afternoon, following a visit to the Northern Panhandle. The tour came at the invitation of Mon Health President and CEO David Goldberg. The first stop was a big green bus, the Ron and Stephanie Stovash ...