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Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Scientist Wins Prestigious NIH New Innovators Award
Derek Taylor, PhD, a member of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awards this grant to scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical…
Researchers discover new avenue for preventing, treating fatal brain disease
Case Western Reserve University researchers 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 of…
School of Medicine researchers find unexpected protein similarities
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 Ribonucleic acid (RNA), a process required for gene expression. It is known that some…
Renowned scholar to lead presentation on "Accelerating the Implementation of Evidence"
As part of the Distinguished Speaker Presentation, Lawrence W. Green, adjunct professor in Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California at San Francisco, will give a talk titled “Accelerating the Implementation of Evidence: If We Want More Evidence-Based Practice, We…
Internationally renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon coming to Cleveland
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 Western Reserve School of Medicine Wins Prestigious NCI Sponsored Provocative Questions Grant
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University’s Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages…
Cleveland Institutions Receive NIH Grant for Regional Stroke Clinical Trials Coordinating Center
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…
Recombinant Human Prion Protein Inhibits Prion Propagation
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…
Non-specific and Specific RNA Binding Proteins Found to be Fundamentally Similar
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…
New book chronicles latest advances in cancer gene therapy
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…