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Case Western Reserve University receives additional $500,000 state grant for technology start-up fund
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University an additional $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations. The new round of funding follows an initial award of $500,000 in 2016,…
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Full-length serotonin receptor structure seen for first time
High-powered microscope shows receptor at rest, with focus on drug development A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have used Nobel Prize-winning microscope technology to see full-length serotonin receptors for the first time. The tiny…
Researchers uncover link between heart attacks and inflammatory bowel disease
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute researchers Muhammad Panhwar, MD, and Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD, recently concluded a study of more than 22 million patients that suggests a strong connection between Inflammatory Bowel…
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Researchers discover new enzymes central to cell function
Enzymes open door for targeted therapeutics across disease spectrum Doctors have long treated heart attacks, improved asthma symptoms and cured impotence by increasing levels of a single molecule in the body: nitric oxide. The tiny molecule can change how proteins function. But new research…
Richard Martin, MD, receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Neonatal Research
Richard Martin, MD Richard Martin, MD, professor of pediatrics, reproductive biology, and physiology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and director of neonatal research programs and Drusinsky-Fanaroff Chair in Neonatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has…
Imaging is Us
As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, we are focusing on a different aspect of our history. This month it’s imaging - and our record goes back more than a century. In 1905 Walter C. Hill, MD, was appointed the first radiologist at Lakeside Hospital, about when the institution first…
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Researchers reverse symptoms in neurologic disease model
Study provides hope for Rett syndrome patients and others across autism spectrum It is a parent’s nightmare: A child is born apparently healthy, then stops meeting developmental milestones at one year old. Her verbal and motor skills vanish, and irregular breathing, seizures, and a host of other…
Updates from NCI Board of Scientific Advisors
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors met November 29, 2017, and the slide decks were recently released.  The slides provide a snapshot of the direction of the NCI, and include funding opportunities and access to NCI resources that are useful for many investigators across the Case CCC. Please…
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Case Western Reserve and Sangamo Therapeutics announce $11 million NIH grant for study of gene-edited T cells for the viral eradication of HIV
Case Western Reserve University and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. recently announced the award of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a planned study of gene-edited T cells designed to eradicate persistent HIV infection in patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy, a…
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Living human tracheas
Case Western Reserve University researchers make natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube…