News Releases
November 16, 2017
Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have developed a computer program to find new indications for old drugs. The computer program, called DrugPredict, matches existing data about FDA-approved drugs to diseases, and predicts potent...
November 15, 2017
A team of researchers led by Kath Bogie, DPhil (PhD), a biomedical engineer and associate professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, and colleagues from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and other institutions, has received a $1.8M, three-year gran...
November 15, 2017
Researchers from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have received two grant awards, in partnership with investigators from other institutions, from the National Institutes of Health to conduct major studies on Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of memory loss and other forms o...
November 14, 2017
Researchers from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, and University of Pittsburgh have received a four-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop enhanced infrared light technology (infrared neuromodulation) for potentially treatin...
November 10, 2017
New national research led by Jonathan Lass, MD of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has found that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days before transplantation surgery to correct eye problems in people with diseases o...
November 06, 2017
Many people around the world, especially in Asia, wear face masks to protect against air pollution. Do they work?
Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, Herman Hellerstein, professor of cardiovascular medicine at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine and chief of cardiovascular medicine at University...
October 26, 2017
A research advance co-led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine’s Kumar Alagramam, PhD, may stop the progression of hearing loss and lead to significant preservation of hearing in people with Usher syndrome type III, a form of hereditary hearing loss linked to defects in the sensory ...
October 25, 2017
Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Res...
October 25, 2017
Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Res...
October 24, 2017
Paul Tesar, DPhil, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2017 New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Stem Cell Prize. Tesar’...