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Clinical trials planned for brain tumor ‘GPS’ maps
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in…
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Case Western Reserve social sciences researchers develop new tool to assess exposure to childhood violence, trauma
Designed in response to high exposure rates, new screening measure expected to be implemented nationally One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied…
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Case Western Reserve University researchers discover critical link to controlling inflammation in Crohn’s disease
Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal inflammation in a mouse model of…
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Case School of Engineering creates new Computer & Data Sciences Department
$5 million gift from alumnus also creates the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship Case Western Reserve University has launched a new Computer & Data Sciences Department in the Case School of Engineering and announced the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship, which will be held by the future chair of…
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New technology delivers genome editing complexes directly to stem cells
Research supported by multi-year National Institutes of Health grant The development of a set of strategies for delivering genome editing complexes directly to stem cells has earned a group of innovators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine a first-year grant of nearly $700,000…
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Training middle-school educators to identify suicide warning signs
Case Western Reserve University research examines virtual role-playing to address student mental health, suicide Aside from car crashes, suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among young people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Ohio…
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SEC Commissioner (and Case Western Reserve alum) Hester Peirce to speak on entrepreneurship Dec. 9
Before Hester M. Peirce was appointed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner, she was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1993. Since being sworn into her SEC post in January 2018—one of the federal…
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Using artificial intelligence to determine whether immunotherapy is working
Case Western Reserve researchers use AI with routine CT scans to predict how well lung cancer patients will respond to expensive treatment based off changes in texture patterns inside and outside the tumor Scientists from the Case Western Reserve University digital imaging lab, already pioneering…
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Pamela B. Davis—dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine—named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Pamela B. Davis, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions…
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New study explores the link between obesity and gum disease
CWRU School of Dental Medicine research suggests treating one may impact the other Obesity and gum (periodontal) disease are among the most common non-communicable diseases in the United States—and studies show these chronic conditions may be related. This new study explores the effect of obesity…