dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – In the ever-evolving quest to improve treatment for stroke victims, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently performed the first in-human procedure using a new technology to treat strokes […]
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Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute opens NeuroPerformance Innovation Center to study and treat concussion
MORGANTOWN – WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute marked the official opening of its NeuroPerformance Innovation Center on Thursday. A multidisciplinary Concussion and Brain Injury Care Team – neurologists, physiatrists (physical medicine), […]
Gift to Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute advances Alzheimer’s research in memory of late WVU alumnus
MORGANTOWN — The family of a WVU alumnus has given a gift to WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute to advance groundbreaking Alzheimer’s disease research. The gift from Sharon Miller establishes the […]
Justice’s nonsense veto of research funds for RNI
Gov. Jim Justice often says and does nonsensical things. But his veto of research dollars for WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute reaches a whole new level of ludicrousness. HB 5014 would […]
Dr. Rezai and RNI are leading the way
There’s a common malapropism: “It’s not rocket surgery” — an often unintentional mashing of the idioms “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery.” What Dr. Ali Rezai and […]
WVU’s Ali Rezai talks about Rockefeller Neuroscience’s groundbreaking ultrasound research and national media attention
MORGANTOWN – WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently received national media attention for its groundbreaking research in Alzheimer’s disease and drug addiction. We sat down last week and talked with RNI […]
House advances bill to give $2 million to WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, resolution supporting Texas in border struggle
MORGANTOWN – House Speaker Roger Hanshaw stepped down from his dais on Friday to promote a bill to give $2 million to WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute to support its groundbreaking […]
WVUM Rockefeller Neuroscience’s Ali Rezai explains their ingestible smart pill research and potential for drug overdose detection
MORGANTOWN – WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute executive chair Dr. Ali Rezai met with The Dominion Post to delve more into the lifesaving potential of a new ingestible smart pill that […]
Capito makes stops at WVU Medicine, Longview Power during Morgantown visit
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito made a series of stops in Morgantown on Thursday, visiting WVU Medicine facilities and Longview Power, and celebrating a milestone with broadband provider Breezeline. […]
Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute expands Alzheimer’s research in latest trial
WVU MEDICINE The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) launched afirst-in-the-world clinical trial pairing focused ultrasound treatment with Alzheimer’s antibody drug therapy to a targeted area of the brain, […]









