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Bernadette (Bernie) Kerrigan Chosen as Inaugural Executive Director of First Year Cleveland
First Year Cleveland, in partnership with the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has selected Bernadette (Bernie) Kerrigan as the founding executive director of this recently established organization that will work to reduce infant mortality i...
Mark Chance, Vice Dean for Research, Named AAAS Fellow
Mark R. Chance, PhD, vice dean for research at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. AAAS is the world’s largest general scien...
Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Results Improved when Teens Stopped Smoking, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Researcher Finds
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine researcher has found that addiction treatment results improved when teens in a residential program stopped smoking. The findings are published in a new study in the November issue of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. They hold important im...
Researchers Receive Patent for Humanity Award
Malaria has killed more people than any disease caused by a single organism, including small pox and the plague. Symptoms include high fever, copious sweating, nausea and vomiting, and shaking chills. While the industrialized world has been essentially malaria-free for more than half a century, the ...
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Researchers Receive Vision Grants from Global Eye Bank Organization
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine researchers have received grants totaling $40,000 from Ann Arbor-based Eversight, a global nonprofit network of eye banks. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø projects are aimed at helping glaucoma patients and those with Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy. Eversight re...
Scientists Develop Computer Models to Predict Cancer Cell Network Activity
A multi-institution academic-industrial partnership of researchers led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine has developed a new method to broadly assess cell communication networks and identify disease-specific network anomalies. The computer-based method, called InFlo, was develope...
First of its Kind Comprehensive Assessment of Malaria in Madagascar Paves Way for National Strategic Plan for its Eradication
Researchers at the Center for Global Health & Diseases at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, and international colleagues, have provided the first of its kind comprehensive assessment of the current status of malaria in Madagascar, laying the groundwork for the 2018-2022 national st...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Researchers Win National Patent for Humanity Award
A team of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers has been recognized with the Patent for Humanity award by the Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a portable, battery-operated device that uses magnets and lasers to quickly and inexpensively det...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Support Research Training for Medical Students
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine researchers have received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant (T35) grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of ...
Human Sex Reversal as a Protein Numbers Game
A group of researchers from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have completed a comprehensive molecular analysis of a toddler who developed as a female despite having a male genetic background, termed XY sex reversal. The study identifies for the first time how the machinery for dest...