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Reshaping Research: A Guide to Integrating Cultural Considerations into Research
Updated July 2021 The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was created in 2004 by Case Western Reserve University and the MetroHealth System. The Center helps to direct the Community Research Partnership Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative. The aim of this Core is to…
Case Western Reserve to lead multi-institutional ‘big data’ project
Case Western Reserve University is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal ‘big data’ grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of information the U.S. health care system collects every day. If successful, the work could create enormous new…
CWRU researcher awarded grant to help make biomedical network data more accessible to speed health discoveries
Mehmet Koyuturk The amount of biomedical data being generated nationally is exploding, and holds great promise for research. The data is often organized in the form of networks, which provide insights into interactions among the components of biological systems, such as molecules, genes and…
Key protein controls nutrient availability in mammals
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like…
3D views reveal intricacies in intestines that could lead to discoveries for inflammatory bowel disease
A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer an extraordinary new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,Case Western Reserve scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can provide physicians an invaluable diagnostic tool in…
CWRU researchers help Air Force think small—as in bug size
Flies and moths can hover, maneuver and fly to a target through a moonless night better than any manmade aircraft. Biologists at Case Western Reserve University are helping the U.S. Air Force to understand how. The military wants to build flying machines no bigger than the size of a large moth for…
What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Food
Confronted by a irate patient? What to do? “Challenge yourself to find something about him or her that you can authentically praise” suggests Cancer Center member Dr. Timothy Gilligan, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication at Cleveland…
Gender Equality at the Case CCC
Guest Author: Ruth Keri, PhD This past month, Gary Gilliland, Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, penned a commentary for the Association of American Cancer Institutes, emphasizing the need for women and other underrepresented groups in science and describing his goals for…
National Eye Institute awards Case Western Reserve up to $3.3 million to develop two-photon ophthalmoscope
Imagine an instrument that peers deep inside the eye and sees how well the retina’s cells function. Such advanced technology would provide unprecedented options for early detection of disease – not only of the eye, but other organs as well. Case Western Reserve Professor Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD,…
Biomedical engineering's Nicole Steinmetz awarded NSF CAREER grant
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai…