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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)
Recent News
October 25, 2019
Elaine A. Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition, recently co-wrote a piece published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. Titled “Measuring quality and outcomes of research…
October 25, 2019
In August, researchers from the Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration in Kampala, Uganda, hosted a group of six health policy advisors and counsel or legislative aides for six U.S. senators, including the office of Sen. Robert Portman from Ohio, and representatives from the Global Health Technologies…
October 24, 2019
Grant award provides new discovery pathway for MSTP students to translate promising scientific discoveries into medicines Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently announced a new program to help the next generation of…
October 22, 2019
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center researcher receives NIH funding to investigate Scientists have known that bacteria in the gut, along with environmental and genetic factors, contribute to the debilitating intestinal ailment of Crohn’s…
October 18, 2019
Nora L. Nock, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, was appointed to the inaugural Statistical Review Board (SRB) of the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) journals Aug. 1. Members of the SRB will provide evaluations of statistical methods and…
October 16, 2019
Leading community organizations will convene an action summit in Cleveland to call out racism as a public health crisis Nov. 8–9 at Public Auditorium (500 Lakeside Ave. E.). Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the event, titled “400 Years of Inequity: A Call to…
October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at Case Western Reserve Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups. His curiosity, fueled…
October 09, 2019
While 2019 marks the 17th year of the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit and the fifth Coulter Investment Forum, this year marks the first time both events will be presented together. The summit, held Monday, Oct. 21, will feature AMP’D Arena in the Global Center for Health Innovation in…
October 08, 2019
Comprehensive sequencing effort could reveal how bacteria cause gut wall damage Scientists have made genetic data publicly available for bacteria that
might be lurking inside the gut walls of patients chronically affected with severe
Crohn’s disease. By studying a surgically removed, damaged…
October 08, 2019
The Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve
University and Cleveland Clinic welcomed its first students this summer. The
new campus promotes interprofessional education (IPE) in the health sciences
and hosts students from the School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine,
Frances Payne…