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Upcoming events from the Veale Institute of Entrepreneurship
The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship regularly hosts events and workshops designed to provide opportunities for students to engage in important discussion and learn valuable skills. They’ll be hosting several events in August: Turning Innovation Into Acquisition: A Biotech Entrepreneur's Guide ...
NPR's Morning Edition Features Team's Research on Obesity, Cancer, and GLP1s
Hsin-Ti (Cindy) Lin, MD, and Benjamin Liu, MD, both Residents at MetroHealth, were interviewed by National Public Radio's (NPR) health correspondent, Yuki Noguchi, about their research on the promise of GLP-1 agonists, a class of drugs now being used to treat diabetes and weight loss, for use in pre...
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Researchers awarded $2.8M federal grant to study potential treatment of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
More than 3,400 sudden unexpected infant deaths are reported annually in the United States, making it the country’s biggest cause of death of infants from 1 month to 1 year old, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most of these deaths are classified as Sudden Infant D...
Parameswaran Passes the Torch to Metheny for New Trial Exploring BAFF CAR T-cell Therapy for Relapsed Myeloma
January 2022 debuted Reshmi Parameswaran's novel B-cell activating factor (BAFF) CAR T product effective at killing multiple B-cell cancers with robust in vitro and in vivo cytotoxicity exerted by these cells against mantle cell lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This app...
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Researchers awarded $2.8M federal grant to study potential treatment of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
More than 3,400 sudden unexpected infant deaths are reported annually in the United States, making it the country’s biggest cause of death of infants from 1 month to 1 year old, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most of these deaths are classified as Sudden Infant D...
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Case Western Reserve University physics professor Johanna Nagy awarded prestigious NASA fellowship
Johanna Nagy, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently awarded NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics to advance her work in experimental cosmology. This esteemed early career award is granted to a select few of the ...
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Postdoc Spotlight of the Month: Muhammad Zeeshan
To recognize the contributions postdoctoral researchers make to Case Western Reserve University—and their respective fields—The Daily has partnered with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs on a new monthly series. Know an outstanding postdoc making an impact at CWRU or in their field? Nominate them t...
Capturing surgical expertise: Zonghe Chua receives NIH Trailblazer grant to develop autonomous coaching system for surgeons
In basketball, to shoot the perfect free throw, train your eye on the rim. In baseball, for the perfect pitch, look at the catcher’s mitt. So says the “quiet eye” technique, which calls on a period of extended visual attention to improve coordination and performance. A research-backed approach for ...
Sossey-Alaoui Co-Authors Article Highlighting the Importance of Cross-Talk Between Cancer Cells and Recipient Cells
Case CCC Molecular Oncology Program member Khalid Sossey-Alaoui, PhD, and Thomas Jefferson University's Lucia Languino, PhD, conducted a collaborative study that appears in a recent Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. The study, Expression of the αVβ3 integrin affects prostate cancer sEV cargo and de...
Spratt Assesses Associations Between the Decipher GC and Risks of Metastasis/BCR after Prostate Biopsy/Radical Prostatectomy in Patients
Daniel Spratt, MD, member of Case CCC's Developmental Therapeutics Program, conducted a retrospective cohort study assessing the associations between the Decipher Genomic Classifier (Decipher GC), a test that improves understanding of the aggressiveness of a patient's prostate cancer, and risks of m...