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Cleveland research team identifies key driver of age-related cognitive decline
Researchers from University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA published preclinical results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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August 28, 2020
Known for his inquisitive nature, Christopher Lysyj was, at times, an unofficial ambassador for his classmates in the Master of Science in Anesthesia program, often taking it upon himself to seek clarification during class. This week, his classmates and professors are mourning the loss of Lysyj,…
August 28, 2020
Uma Mahajan, a first-year student at the School of Medicine, and Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, assistant dean of students, published an article titled “Racial demographics and COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths: a correlational analysis of 2886 US counties.” The article is nationwide study examining…
August 27, 2020
Outlet: GeekWire
August 27, 2020
Luminary Therapeutics (Luminary Tx) and Case Western Reserve University have entered into a formal collaboration agreement that includes an option for Luminary to exclusively license a novel BAFF target for use in CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) constructs. The BAFF target was discovered…
August 26, 2020
Outlet: USA Today
August 26, 2020
Outlet: News 5 Cleveland
August 25, 2020
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library is now accepting applications for Digital Scholarship Grants for the 2020-2021 academic year. This newly created grant program targets scholars who are not eligible for the Freedman Fellows Faculty or Student programs. In…
August 25, 2020
Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work. His breakthrough happened early, as a graduate student at Washington University in the mid-1970s. His first publication reporting the initial example of the…
August 24, 2020
Outlet: Pharmacy Times
August 23, 2020
Outlet: The Weather Channel