{"id":103,"date":"2021-11-09T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:36:47","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Info Text &#8211; Right Hand Column Placeholder<br \/>Refresh After Saving to Remove<\/h2>\n  <h3><strong>Follow Us on Instagram<\/strong><\/h3><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vandy_viral\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/viral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/03\/Image20260326112006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n        <p>International and Domestic graduate students, postdocs, and\u00a0faculty members, comprise the\u00a0<a href=\"\/viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderbilt International Researcher\u00a0Alliance (VIRAL)<\/a>.<\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n          <h2>Organization goal<\/h2>\n        <p>To create an environment to foster international researchers by providing them with a community which promotes intercultural awareness via educational, social, and cross-cultural programs and provide a space to discuss concerns and communicate the needs of the international community.<\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n          <h2>What we do <\/h2>\n        <p>VIRAL&#8217;s goals are to provide four pillars of support to the international community by:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lobbying for the interests of international researchers in a unified fashion across the biomedical sciences and other graduate programs.<\/li>\n<li>Fostering a community where international researchers can find support and interact with others from dispersed labs and departments.<\/li>\n<li>Providing transition support for incoming international researchers.<\/li>\n<li>Creating a more tangible environment where domestic researchers can engage with the international community and understand our unique circumstances as researchers in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/lab-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-10.36.28-PM-1-768x545-1.png\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Graduate students and researchers of all levels are welcome!\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info Text &#8211; Right Hand Column PlaceholderRefresh After Saving to Remove Follow Us on Instagram International and Domestic graduate students, postdocs, and\u00a0faculty members, comprise the\u00a0Vanderbilt International Researcher\u00a0Alliance (VIRAL). Organization goal To create an environment to foster international researchers by providing them with a community which promotes intercultural awareness via educational, social, and cross-cultural programs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-vanderbilt","tag-viral"],"acf":[],"ACF":{"topper_style":"default","topper_overline":"","topper_title":"","topper_intro":"","default_topper_background_type":"none","footer_style":"standard","recirculation_style":"none","nav_menu":"","nav_menu_secondary":"no","page_style_option":"details","page_theme_option":"light","page_class_name":"","page_jumplinks_option":"no"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PdsYqZ-1F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/viral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}