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PRCHN’s Elaine A. Borawski co-writes piece on assessing team science
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…
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Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration researchers host government leadership in Uganda
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…
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Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine announce program to advance discoveries by the next generation
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…
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How do interactions between gut bacteria and fungi exacerbate Crohn’s disease?
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…
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Medicine’s Nora L. Nock named to inaugural Statistical Review Board of the American Society of Nutrition journals
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…
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“400 Years of Inequity: A Call to Action”
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…
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Student’s curiosity about his family’s cancer history fuels award-winning research project
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…
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Coulter Investment Forum at Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit
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…
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Genetic data now available for bacteria central to Crohn’s disease
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…
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See the new Health Education Campus
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…