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School of Medicine professor receives two Innovation Grants in pursuit of HIV cure
Part of international effort to eliminate HIV by 2020 The leader of Case Western Reserve’s AIDS research center has won two of seven grants that amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, awarded last month to support projects advancing the search for a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)....
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Takes a Lead Role in Cleveland’s Infant Mortality Initiative
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will serve as a lead partner for “First Year Cleveland,” a project aimed at reducing infant mortality in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. The project, which has been awarded more than $2.9 million from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, is a collaborat...
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Drug candidate shrinks tumor when delivered by plant virus nanoparticle
Phenanthriplatin outperformed cisplatin in mouse model of triple-negative breast cancer when encapsulated into nanocarrier In a pair of firsts, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that the drug candidate phenanthriplatin can be more eff...
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Case Western Reserve University Researchers Block Common Type of Colon Cancer Tumor in Mice
Findings lay groundwork for human clinical trial planned for August 2016 A new scientific study has identified why colorectal cancer cells depend on a specific nutrient, and a way to starve them of it. Over one million men and women are living with colorectal cancer in the United States. The Nation...
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Researchers design targeted therapy for genetic disorder that damages hearing and vision
An international team led by researchers at Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine has designed a targeted therapy that shows early promise in treating a genetic disorder that damages both hearing and vision over time. Usher syndrome—the most common cause of inherited dual sensory deficit—is cla...
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Prevention Task Force Recommendations on Colon Cancer: Practice changing discoveries from the Case CCC
Guest Author: Greg Cooper Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death in this country, though over the past decade, both the incidence and mortality have been declining. Colorectal screening is universally recommended as a means to detect premalignant adenomas as well as ear...
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Researchers receive grant to understand why some HIV+ individuals avoid contracting tuberculosis
Findings could offer hope for TB prevention, cure Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine experts and colleagues in the United States and Africa have received an $11 million, five-year federal grant to understand why some people living with HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) in Africa...
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Welcome to the first issue of our new electronic newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of our new electronic newsletter. Each month we’ll be providing news and stories about Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the terrific people who help make us a center of medical education excellence and a mainstay of Cleveland’s economy. The newslette...
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“Real Science Now!” to address issues and public policy in science and medicine
The Institute for the Science of Origins at Case Western Reserve University and the Great Lakes Science Center will present a daylong seminar titled “Real Science Now!” The seminar will feature top researchers discussing “the newest science and medicine distilled for the public, press and Republican...
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CWRU receives NIH funding to participate in launch of genomics center on Alzheimer's disease
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is one of six recipients of a five-year, $10.8 million award from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish the Coordinating Center for Genetics and Genomics of Alzheimer’s disease. The hope is that di...