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Study will allow researchers to develop personalized precision medicine for treatment of IBD in this underrepresented minority patient population Gay men are more than twice as likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than heterosexual men when both populations engage in high-risk sexual…

When Jonathan Haines was learning about genetics in his high school biology class, he thought it was going to be pretty straightforward—you get one copy of genes from mom, one copy from dad and that’s it. “By the time I realized it was really complex, I was already hooked,” said Haines, the Mary…

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University will receive up to $20 million in funding as part of a grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand how and why prion diseases—degenerative brain…

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University will receive up to $20 million in funding as part of a grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand how and why prion diseases—degenerative brain…

David Cooperrider's new book, 'The Business of Building a Better World' is nominated for the 2022 getAbstract International Book Award in the Business Impact category. Read his interview with the getAbstract journal.

PhD student Liat Johnson is one of only four doctoral students chosen nationally to receive a fellowship through the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The purpose of the program “is to reduce health disparities and improve healthcare outcomes of…

NPR Chicago: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and research director for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed the trend of the Chicago Housing Authority selling and transferring land to commercial entities.   Read the article

Case Western Reserve University researcher, company, collaborating to develop blood test measuring the effects, potency of new gene therapies for sickle cell disease Doctors treating people who suffer from sickle cell disease (SCD) may soon be able to give their patients a simple blood test to…

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, which aims to bring attention to advancing research, care practices, treatments and possible cures for people with sickle cell disease. Umut Gurkan To better understand this blood disorder, The Daily sat down with Umut Gurkan, a professor in the…

Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year, according to a study of more than 6 million patients 65 and older. In a study published today in the Journal of…