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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
It only took an instant for all of Akua Abrah’s career ideas to shift. Peering into the eyes of an infant at an orphanage in Ghana, she tossed aside her aspirations of becoming a veterinarian—inspired by repeated viewings of Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Doolittle. Though she had yet to hear the word …
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October 14, 2013
University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine announce today that internationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Soon J. Park, MD, will join the two institutions October 14. Dr. Park will serve as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at UH Case...
October 10, 2013
Five Cleveland biomedical research and health care institutions have received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), one of the National Institutes of Health, to collaborate on developing the Cleveland Stroke Clinical Trials Regional Coordinating...
October 09, 2013
Case Western Reserve University researchers today published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases, rare neurodegenerative disorders that are always fatal. The researchers discovered that recombinant human prion protein stops the propagation o...
October 08, 2013
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found unexpected similarities between proteins that were thought to be fundamentally different.
The team studied how proteins bind to RNA, a process required for gene expression. It is known that some proteins only bind RNA...
October 03, 2013
The field of gene therapy promises to dramatically transform the treatment of disease, as well as fundamentally change the delivery of health care in the 21st century. A new book provides a comprehensive review of the field of gene-based therapeutics in an expanded third edition textbook that concen...
October 01, 2013
CLEVELAND – October 1, 2013 – Case Western Reserve University is among the major partners in a $10.2 million Ohio project designed to speed medical breakthroughs to patients – one of only three to win federal funding this year.
The Cleveland Clinic is leading the initiative, which includes Case Wes...
September 24, 2013
Real-time imaging technique provides essential molecular picture of protective nerve sheath
Researchers have made a major breakthrough, developing a first-of-its-kind imaging tool to examine myelin damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). An extremely difficult disease to diagnose, the tool will help phys...
September 23, 2013
Researchers have made an exciting breakthrough – developing a first-of-its-kind imaging tool to examine myelin damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). An extremely difficult disease to diagnose, the tool will help physicians diagnose patients earlier, monitor the disease’s progression, and evaluate thera...
September 17, 2013
Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a genetic factor that blocks the blood vessel inflammation that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other potentially life-threatening events.
The breakthrough involving Kruppel-like factor (KLF) 15 is the latest in a string of discover...
September 12, 2013
The idea that men and women are fundamentally different from each other is widely accepted. And throughout the world, this has created distinct ideas about which social and physical characteristics are necessary in each gender to maintain healthy human development.
However, social revolutions throu...