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Jianjun Zhao, MD, PhD, has received a five-year, nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to investigate a new approach for treating chemotherapy-associated kidney damage. In study results published last year, Dr. Zhao and his team fou...

As the school year begins, Stephen Sroka, adjunct professor at the School of Medicine, wrote an opinion piece on masking in schools. Published by cleveland.com, Sroka’s piece discussed lessons not yet learned for schools about the delta variant, vaccinations and masks. “Mandating or not mandating ...

David J. Birnkrant, professor of pediatrics, and Jane B. Black, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, penned an op-ed for cleveland.com calling for the public to rely on expert consensus rather than personal opinion when considering COVID-19 information. In their piece, titled “Expert consens...

Though the Department of Biochemistry maintained a limited in-person presence throughout the pandemic, the environment couldn’t compare to our normally bustling campus and the ability to offer our students a full educational experience. Today I asked Alan Diehl, Department of Biochemistry chair and ...

Center is one of 31 NIH-funded centers in the nation The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant expected to total $15.4 million to continue funding the Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The new five-year award will support the multi-i...

Emergency room patients who were flagged by an artificial-intelligence algorithm for possibly having sepsis received antibiotics sooner and had better outcomes, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted by physician-researchers at Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth. Their findings w...

The Affordable Cancer Technology (ACT 2021) Conference is a global oncology virtual event open to the public for the first time Sept. 23–24. The focus will be the intersection of technological innovation, cancer research, and global disparities, and it will bring together researchers, public health ...

Mukesh Jain, the Ellery Sedgwick Chair and Distinguished Scientist in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, is internationally recognized for his discovery of the role of a family of factors termed Kruppel-like factors (KLFs)—DNA-binding proteins that regulate a host of biol...

Program: Master of Public Health ProgramYear: Second-Year At a time when misinformation related to health care abounds, it's important to seek out expertise. Ibrahim Mohammed Alasafrah, a second-year public health master’s student, is on a quest to do just that. Alasafrah recently launched a podca...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first U.S. patent for a novel ovarian cancer vaccine technology developed by Cleveland Clinic researchers Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, Suparna Mazumder, PhD, and Justin M. Johnson. The technology is licensed worldwide by Anixa Biosciences, Inc., a biotec...