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Nationally Recognized Expert in Healthcare Curriculum Named Vice Dean for Medical Education
An expert in medical curriculum development who also participated in the development of a Johns Hopkins University’s medical education building is ϳԹ’s new vice dean for medical education. Patricia Thomas, MD, FACP, a nationally recognized educator, author, and physician, assumes ...
Study Shows Autistic Brains Create More Information at Rest
New research from ϳԹ and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest – a 42% increase on average. The study offers a scientific explanation for the most typical characteristic of autism – withdrawal i...
Davis To Chair Scientific Society’s Medical Sciences Section
Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, dean and senior vice president for Medical Affairs at ϳԹ School of Medicine, has been elected chair-elect of the Medical Sciences section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific socie...
ϳԹ Wins $12.7 Million for AIDS Research and Clinical Trials
AIDS researchers from ϳԹ and University Hospitals Case Medical Center have received a seven-year funding award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This award includes $12.7 million for ...
Cleveland Clinic, ϳԹ School of Medicine Team Discovers Key Mechanisms to Inhibit Triple Negative Breast Cancers
A team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and ϳԹ School of Medicine have identified critical complex mechanisms involved in the metastasis of deadly “triple negative” breast cancers (TNBC). These tumors are extremely difficult to treat, frequently return after remission, and...
Breakthrough in Understanding the Secret Life of Prion Molecules
New research from David Westaway, PhD, of the University of Alberta and Jiri Safar, MD, ϳԹ School of Medicine has uncovered a quality control mechanism in brain cells that may help keep deadly neurological diseases in check for months or years. The findings, published i...
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Grants $625,000 to ϳԹ School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA (January 14, 2014) – In an effort to bring the latest treatments to more children with cancer now, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) has announced the awarding of six new Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants to researchers at leading hospitals and institutions across the country. ...
Nature Study Discovers Chromosome Therapy to Correct a Severe Chromosome Defect
Geneticists from Ohio, California and Japan joined forces in a quest to correct a faulty chromosome through cellular reprogramming. Their study, published online today in Nature, used stem cells to correct a defective “ring chromosome” with a normal chromosome. Such therapy has the promise to correc...
Researchers at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Discover Ovarian Cancer Biomarker
Researchers at ϳԹ have identified a microRNA biomarker that shows promise in predicting treatment response in the most common form of ovarian cancer – a breakthrough that has the potential to improve outcomes for patients with the disease. A ϳԹ research team led by An...
ϳԹ Researchers Uncover Critical Interaction in Heart Drugs
Researchers at ϳԹ School of Medicine and Temple University School of Medicine have gained new insight into how classic heart drugs work—and it’s not the way they thought. Their discovery – on the role nitric oxide (NO) plays in blocking the effect of an enzyme called GR...