Science + Tech

Turning the art of a trefoil knot into polymer science is no easy process, but researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed a technique that produces a long chain molecule with the desired pretzel-like shape. Knotted polymers, sometimes found in nature, produce different properties than...

Having Vice President Joe Biden kick-off the post Cancer Moonshot Summit national campaign in Cleveland - what a day!! The Vice President came to the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center because we proposed a concerted effort to develop interventional science driven ...

Researchers find small-scale structures produce important effects using new computer codes Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe and the growth of structur...

Jonathan Karn, PhD, an HIV/AIDS expert from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received two Innovation research grants out of seven allocated in the United States and Canada as part of an international effort to find a scientific basis for a cure of HIV/AIDS by 2020. The grants...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine experts and colleagues in the United States and Africa have received an $11 million, five-year NIH grant to understand why some people living with HIV in Africa avoid becoming infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) despite exposur...

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty member has received $998,500 from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a new approach to improve the quality and quantity of limbs and tissues obtained from brain dead organ donors. Benefits also could be extended to the more standard...

Christopher N. Miller, MD, MS, has been appointed chairman of the department of emergency medicine and Goutham Rao, MD, CM, has been appointed chairman of family medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Making the announcements wer...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is one of six recipients of a five-year, $10.8 million award from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish the Coordinating Center for Genetics and Genomics of Alzheimer’s disease. The hope is that di...

Few threats to public health are as perilous as cigarette smoking, with more than 435,000 Americans dying each year of tobacco-related pulmonary illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD ranks as the third-leading cause of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality worldwide ...

Please join us for an outstanding Cancer Center Annual Scientific Retreat, July 7-8, 2016. The organizing committee [Yogen Saunthararajah (Co-Chair), Nicole Steinmetz (Co-Chair), Eli Bar, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Barbara Bedogni, Chris Flask, Alex Huang, Ruth Keri, Goutham Narla, Nima Sharifi, Scott W...