Here are three things to know.
1. Dr. Rezai was hired to lead the institute in 2017. Dr. Rezai is also the executive chair and vice president of WVU Medicine Neurosciences, as well as WVU School of Medicine associate dean and John D. Rockefeller IV tenured professor of neurosciences. He has been involved with five start-ups over the course of his career.
2. WVU also hired about 225 physicians and other key personnel in the past 18 months, as it opens new programs. The university plans to build a new children’s tower at its Morgantown campus.
3. A building currently under renovation will house the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
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