The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center recently performed the Richmond area’s first da Vinci sacrocolpopexy – a minimally invasive surgical procedure designed to correct pelvic organ prolapse. Read more.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s Reanimation, Engineering and Shock Center, VCURES, announced today is has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Army to study new technologies for optimizing wound healing and limiting wound infections. Read more.

Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells not directly receiving mda-7/IL-24 without harming healthy ones, a discovery that could lead to new therapeutic strategies to fight metastatic disease. Read more.

A Virginia Senate Joint Resolution has designated July 1, 2008, as Virginia Commonwealth University Day in the Commonwealth to commemorate the university’s 40th Anniversary. Read more.

James Michael "Jim" Messmer, M.D., is retiring from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine as senior associate dean for medical education, effective June 30. Messmer came to VCU in 1981 as a full-time radiologist in the abdominal imaging area. He has been the school's senior associate dean for the past 16 years. His successor, Dr. Isaac K. "Ike" Wood, takes over July 1. Read more.

A Virginia Senate Joint Resolution has designated July 1, 2008, as Virginia Commonwealth University Day in the Commonwealth to commemorate the university's 40th anniversary. Read more.

To read the General Assembly's VCU Day resolution and for more information about VCU's 40th anniversary, visit http://www.40th.vcu.edu/index.html.