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Ettore Fantin, BS '16, MSM-Fin '17
Ettore Fantin, BS '16, MSM-Fin '17, is Director of Marketing at .Jobs TDL where he leads a team and is focused on acquisition, content and design for more than 25,000 websites. During his time at Weatherhead, his entrepreneurial spirit was ignited. He even pitched a business plan to the Dalai Lama…
Vedang Kothari, BS '12, MEM '13
Vedang Kothari, BS '12, MEM '13, has always been driven to lead his own company. While interning at Lumitex, a lighting solutions company, he developed a solution to treating oral mucositis, a side effect of cancer treatment. Last year, Lumitex spun his project out into a new company, MuReva…
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Non-coding DNA located outside chromosomes may help drive glioblastoma
Extra DNA scooped up and copied alongside cancer-causing genes helps keep tumors going—elements that could represent new drug targets for brain tumors and other cancers notoriously difficult to treat One of the ways a cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a…
Genetic Data Now Available for Bacteria Central to Chron's Disease
Comprehensive sequencing effort could reveal how bacteria cause gut wall damage Scientists have made genetic data publicly available for bacteria that might be lurking inside the gut walls of patients chronically affected with severe Crohn’s disease. By studying a surgically removed, damaged…
Madabhushi, Markowitz and Tesar Honored with "HomeGrown Hero" Awards
This week, Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer recognized 12 "unsung heroes of our community who are working tirelessly on their start-ups, businesses, innovations and social organizations to fuel the economic development of our region." Three Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) members were…
Major NIH grant will support early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease via skin testing – much less invasive than examining cerebrospinal fluid.
Wenquan Zou, an expert in degenerative neurological diseases, along with collaborators Shu G. Chen, also from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Jiyan Ma, from Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas Beach, from Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City,…