News Releases
October 17, 2016
Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at ϳԹ, and Mukesh K. Jain, MD, FAHA, professor in the Department of Medicine at ϳԹ School of Medicine, have been elected ...
October 14, 2016
The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high-risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker-Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for ...
October 11, 2016
In the first major study of its kind, principal investigator Benjamin Gaston, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist and researcher at ϳԹ School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, has received a five-year, $13.3 million federal grant to dev...
October 05, 2016
Two ϳԹ School of Medicine researchers are receiving new funding from California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation for promising childhood cancer research.
Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD, assistant professor of hematology and oncology, was awarded $330,000 to develop safer cance...
October 03, 2016
Two ϳԹ School of Medicine bioethicists are calling on organized medicine to end its refusal to provide clinical guidance regarding the care of patients actively seeking assistance in dying.
Writing in the November 15, 2016 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (now a...
October 03, 2016
A ϳԹ School of Medicine researcher has received a three-year “big data” grant from the National Science Foundation that will help researchers more effectively gather, use, and share neuroscience-related data, ultimately leading to better treatments.
Sharing and using su...
September 29, 2016
A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading geneticists has characterized how cells know when to stop translating DNA into proteins, a critical step in maintaining healthy protein levels and cell function. In the study published in Cell, researchers studied short pieces of genetic material...
September 20, 2016
A ϳԹ School of Medicine-led team of international researchers has for the first time identified a fungus as a key factor in the development of Crohn’s disease. The researchers also linked a new bacterium to the previous bacteria associated with Crohn’s. The groundbreakin...
September 20, 2016
A person’s DNA sequence can provide a lot of information about how genes are turned on and off, but new research out of ϳԹ School of Medicine suggests the 3-D structure DNA forms as it crams into cells may provide an additional layer of gene control. As long strands of D...
September 14, 2016
In a World View opinion column published in Nature, a ϳԹ School of Medicine researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed – but only with strong animal protections in place. So-called “chimera” research raises the hope of producing human organs in genetica...