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Research into stopping tumor growth was recently featured in BBC Science Focus Magazine as one of the world's "20 moments in 2020 to be excited about." A compound that activates an enzyme capable of suppressing tumors was discovered by a cross-institutional team from the University of Michigan and C...

Glioblastoma, recognized as the most aggressive primary brain cancer in adults is also known to be among the most immunosuppressive of tumors. A Phase 2 clinical trial of PVSRIPO, a revolutionary viral immunotherapy for cancer treatment, in combination with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) is underway acros...

From Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: Standard-of-care treatment for many cancers includes chemotherapy drug cisplatin which prevents the spread of cancer cells by interrupting DNA replication and damaging the genetic material in rapidly dividing tumor cells. Unfortunately, the drug can c...

The Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Case Western Reserve University, through its Master of Public Health Program (MPH) at the School of Medicine, have forged a partnership to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new partnership will help ensure high-quality COVID-19 epidemiology i...

A Q&A with Case Western Reserve University Professor Mark Aulisio Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, weighed in on bioethical issues that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in thi...

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Case Western Reserve University has signed an institutional Data Use Agreement (DUA) with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Through this master agreement, CWRU faculty members (who receive their compensation directly from CWRU) are eligible to submit Data Use Requests...

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration team were recently awarded a 10-year, $1.8 million per year, contract renewal from the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC), part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The TBTC is an international co...

Outlet: Nature Methods Published: January 6, 2021 A ‘Build and Retrieve’ methodology to simultaneously solve cryo-EM structures of membrane proteins Authors: Edward Yu, professor of pharmacology at CWRU School of Medicine and researchers from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ...