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Researchers Receive $6.5 Million NIH Grant to Use Big Data to Tackle Psoriasis
An experienced interdisciplinary team of psoriasis and computational researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU SOM) and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) has received a $6.5M, 5-year grant from the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal…
Researchers Reverse Symptoms in Neurologic Disease Model
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 problems appear. The cause is Rett syndrome—a devastating genetic, neurologic…
Alex Huang, MD, PhD, Receives $450,000 from Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
Alex Huang, MD, PhD Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has received a $450,000 Basic Science grant from Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation to study targeted approaches for effectively eliminating metastatic osteosarcoma. “We’re very excited to study an important cancer…
Alex Huang, MD, PhD, Receives $450,000 from Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has received a $450,000 Basic Science grant from the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation to study targeted approaches for effectively eliminating metastatic osteosarcoma. "We're very excited to study an important cancer that occurs in adolescents,…
Researchers Borrow from AIDS Playbook to Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease: Taking Services to the People
Emmy Okello, MBChB, PhD performs echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease. Billions of US taxpayer dollars have been invested in Africa over the past 15 years to improve care for millions suffering from the HIV/AIDS epidemic; yet health systems on the continent continue to…
Researchers Discover New Enzymes Central to Cell Function
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 featured in Molecular Cellsuggests supplementing nitric oxide—NO—is only…
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Case Western Reserve University to offer prestigious Beckman Scholars Program grants for undergraduate researchers
Case Western Reserve University has been selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer valuable research grants and extensive mentorship to undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences. The university is one of just 12 institutions chosen nationally in 2018 to…
Researchers Develop Highly Sensitive Swallowable Test to Detect Pre-cancerous Barrett's Esophagus
Investigators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have developed a simple, swallowable test for early detection of Barrett’s esophagus that offers promise for preventing deaths from esophageal adenocarcinoma. Barrett’s esophagus…
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Probing Alzheimer’s at both ends of the spectrum
Researchers receive NIH grants to study Amish resilience and rapid onset Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have received two grant awards, in partnership with investigators from other institutions, from the National Institutes of Health to conduct major studies on…
New Antifungal Provides Hope in Fight Against Superbugs
Microscopic yeast have been wreaking havoc in hospitals around the world—creeping into catheters, ventilator tubes, and IV lines—and causing deadly invasive infection. One culprit species, Candida auris, is resistant to many antifungals, meaning once a person is infected, there are limited…