School of Medicine
From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø know how to make headlines.
Hero Type
Image
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 …
In the News
The Statehouse News Bureau
Recent News
Hero Type
Image
August 26, 2011
Welcome back, students! You sure were busy this summer, hopefully gaining some real-world experience and perhaps even making some real-world money. The most respondents to this week’s poll took on summer jobs this year, while a fair share of students polled were lucky—and talented—enough to land co-...
August 23, 2011
Note: Detail on the groundbreaking research that led to this clinical trial is available here.
CLEVELAND—A team of researchers at three landmark Cleveland institutions have come together to launch a new clinical trial of an experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers at the Clev...
August 21, 2011
CLEVELAND – Groundbreaking research encompassing ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, has uncovered a natural defense mechanism that is capable of inactivating the toxin that spreads Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, an increasingly common...
Hero Type
Image
August 19, 2011
In Paris in the early 1900s, a stage-to-street drama was unfolding as leading fashion designers took style cues from the ballet and translated them into haute couture. In turn, the ballet took its cues from what women of that time wore in their daily lives.
Mary E. Davis, professor and chair of Cas...
Hero Type
Image
August 19, 2011
This fall should have ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø sports fans excited, with Cleveland Browns games picking up (check their second preseason game tonight on WKYC Channel 3) and the Indians announcing their postseason ticketing plans for you to potentially catch their shot at playoff glory.
This bodes well for the Clevelan...
August 17, 2011
CLEVELAND—The National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is proud to present "MSC 2011: Innovations in Cell-Based Regenerative Therapies," a three-day forum to highlight transformative breakthroughs in the area of adult stem cell medicine with a focus on how ...
July 13, 2011
CLEVELAND - Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine bridged a spinal cord injury and biologically regenerated lost nerve connections to the diaphragm, restoring breathing in an adult rodent model of spinal cord injury. The work, which restored 80 to more than 100 percent of...
June 28, 2011
CLEVELAND - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestives and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to study intestinal inflammation.
The five-year grant from the institute, which is part of the National Institutes of H...
June 13, 2011
CLEVELAND - Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have discovered a genetic factor that can regulate obesity-induced inflammation that contributes to chronic health problems.
If they learn to control levels of the factor in defense cells called macrophages, "We have a sh...
June 02, 2011
CLEVELAND - - The National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine is teaming up with Edheads, a provider of online education tools, to launch web-based education modules about stem cells.
The modules, based on real clinical trials, are geared t...