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Creative Destruction Lab launches CDL-Cleveland in partnership with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals
CDL-Cleveland will host a new Healthcare Delivery stream—the first CDL Site anchored to a health system—giving science-based ventures direct access to a clinical environment
Katie Colbaugh
From Mars rover crystals to machine learning: a CWRU alum’s AI built for materials manufacturing
A crystal Katie Colbaugh helped grow is currently sitting on Mars. It rode there aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, which touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 and has been searching for signs of ancient life ever since. Colbaugh and her colleagues at Gooch & Housego—a Highland…
Michael Goldberg
Ten years on the CNBC Disruptor 50: Goldberg helps select 2026 list
Veale Institute executive director has spent a decade helping shape CNBC’s annual ranking—and watching the list transform around him
Franco Kraiselburd
CWRU alum’s biotech startup featured for work to improve wound healing
Asclepii, a biotech startup founded by Case Western Reserve University alum Franco Kraiselburd (CWR ’24)—and currently based in CWRU’s 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator—was recently featured on cleveland.com for its work developing technologies to improve care for chronic wounds.Kraiselburd founded…
Amr Salahieh
From Syria to Silicon Valley, a CWRU alum built a medical device empire
A conversation with serial entrepreneur Amr Salahieh (CSE ’89), founder and CEO of Shifamed
Zoe Sekyonda
Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship announces winners of 2026 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition
Fifteen student-led teams competed for more than $45,000 in prizes across three tracks
Ozan Akkus
The body heals itself with collagen. A CWRU lab spins it into surgical thread
A conversation with Ozan Akkus, PhD, engineering professor and entrepreneur, CWRU alum, and co-founder of CollaMedix
Michael Rosenfield
The bug stops here: how a CWRU alum left Google to build an AI startup
Every time a software team releases an update, there’s a new risk of something else breaking. CWRU alum and entrepreneur Michael Rosenfield (CWR ’17), saw the problem firsthand at Google—and watched engineering teams manually check that nothing had gone wrong after every change.His San…
A scientist smiles and looks at a pink robotic arm with a sock puppet
Studying human-robot interaction, CWRU researcher explores tech-enabled mental health support
Editor’s note: Jasmine Vo, the author of this story, is a student employee in the University Marketing and Communications department. She is a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences.As she coped with the grief of suddenly losing her dad during her undergraduate degree, Alexis E.…
Pavan Kota
A CWRU alum is speeding up infection testing
After studying the limits of blood cultures, Pavan Kota (CWR ’17) built a company designed to deliver results in hours instead of days