
According to the press release, “Instead of a local dignitary cutting a ribbon or a popular politician delivering a rousing speech, the new clinical and research facility was inaugurated by an 11-pound domestic shorthaired cat named Kokomo, the first pet to set paw in the new center as a clinical patient.”
Importantly, Virginia Tech has also developed a new partnership with Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, a Focused Ultrasound Foundation Center of Excellence. The two groups will partner to study pet cancers that also occur in children, including certain types of brain cancer.
The news of the new Center in Roanoke coincided with the Foundation’s 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound, during which the Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, gave a keynote address about the impact of focused ultrasound in Virginia. See the Keynote Address >
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