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National Inventors Hall of Fame selects team of CWRU student innovators for national competition
Developing device to expand global access to safe drinking water Update: The CWRU team selected as bronze winner in the graduate competition. A team of student innovators from Case Western Reserve University, developing a device to expand access to clean drinking water globally, was chosen a…
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Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership awards $1.1 million in funding and support for promising biomedical engineering university technologies
The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership between Case Western Reserve University and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has announced more than $1.1 million in 2018 funding and support for six biomedical technologies. The six Case Western Reserve projects were selected for full program…
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LOOK: More than 200 patients treated at annual 'Admitting Days' clinic
Students from the School of Dental Medicine provided free dental care to more than 200 people as part of the annual Admitting Days dental clinic at Case Western Reserve University on Sept. 17 and 18. More than 80 third- and fourth-year students and residents participated in the clinics each day,…
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Case Western Reserve’s Lan Zhou receives $2M NIH grant to study colorectal cancer development
Lan Zhou, associate professor of pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study human colorectal cancer. Her work focuses on the effect of the imbalance of…
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Study: Antibiotics destroy immune cells and worsen oral infection
New research shows that the body’s own microbes are effective in maintaining immune cells and killing certain oral infections. A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers found that antibiotics actually kill the  “good” bacteria keeping infection and inflammation at bay. Scientists have…
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Conflict of Interest
This past Sunday the New York Times published an extensive front-page article about the repeated failures of a prominent physician scientist to declare potential conflicts of interest on many of the research papers he published. This was even the case for papers in journals that explicitly query…
Seeds of Discovery
On August 24, we greeted a new class of PhD students from around the world at the annual Seeds of Discovery White Coat ceremony. The following is an edited version of Dean Pamela Davis’ welcoming remarks. I am honored to welcome another brilliant class of new scientists and researchers to Case…
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Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, Elected President of the American Society of Human Genetics
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, the James H. Jewell MD ’34 Professor of Genetics and chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, has been…
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7 percent of children in orthodontic care at ‘high risk’ for sleep disorders, according to new CWRU research
A child who is restless, hyperactive and can’t concentrate could have a problem rooted in a source parents might not suspect: a sleep disorder. That’s according to a new study by Case Western Reserve researchers at the School of Dental Medicine, who found that about 7 percent of children between…
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Engineering’s Umut Gurkan wins 2018 Patents for Humanity Honorable Mention for hemoglobin scanner
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the winners of its 2018 Patents for Humanity program, an initiative promoting game-changing innovations to address long-standing development challenges. Umut Gurkan, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Mechanical and…