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Obesity Expert James Levine, MD, PhD, Appointed Chief of Endocrinology at UH Case Medical Center and ϳԹ School of Medicine
CLEVELAND - Fred C. Rothstein, MD, President, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, Dean, ϳԹ School of Medicine, announce the appointment of James Levine, MD, PhD, as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine. ...
ϳԹ School of Medicine Researcher Discovers New “Anti-pathogenic” Drugs to Treat MRSA
CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor and researcher in the department of biochemistry at the ϳԹ School of Medicine, has identified new anti-pathogenic drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) har...
New Dual Recognition Mechanism Discovered in Tuberculosis
CLEVELAND - One third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which leads to tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death world-wide. A new discovery, led by a team of researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine, offers hope for new approac...
New Sporadic Prion Protein Disease Identified by ϳԹ
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was reported in the 1920s. The landmark finding from the...
New Methods, New Math Speed Detection of Drug-resistant Malaria
CLEVELAND - Researchers at ϳԹ developed techniques to quickly identify evolution of drug resistance in strains of malaria. Their goal is to enable the medical community to react quickly to inevitable resistance and thereby save lives while increasing the lifespan of drug...
ϳԹ School of Medicine Awarded $4.7M Contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
CLEVELAND - Jonathan Stamler, MD, Director of the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine and the Robert S. and Sylvia K. Reitman Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Innovation at the ϳԹ and University Hospitals Harrington-McLaughlin Heart & V...
$9M NIH Grant Renewal Awarded to ϳԹ/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Center for AIDS Research
CLEVELAND - The ϳԹ/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) announced today it has received a five-year renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for $9 million. The CFAR provides clinical and technological support to rese...
Susan G. Komen Awards ϳԹ School of Medicine Nearly $500,000 to Lead a Clinical Study Aimed to Improve Outcomes for Older Women with Breast Cancer
CLEVELAND - Cynthia Owusu, MD, associate professor at ϳԹ and geriatric-oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, the School’s primary affiliate, has received nearly $500,000 from Susan G. Komen For the Cure to fund a novel three-year study aimed at improvin...
Research Suggests Mechanism for the Link between High-Fat Diet and Risk of Prostate Cancer and Other Prostatic Disorders
CLEVELAND - Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men with an estimated 192,280 new cases diagnosed in the US in 2009 (Jemal 2009). Diet is considered one of the most important controllable risk factors for inflammation and prostate diseases including benign prostat...
ϳԹ-led Team Takes High Resolution Photo of a K+ Channel
CLEVELAND - Using chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the ϳԹ School of Medicine Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and professor of physiology and biophysics; Sayan Gupta, PhD, instructor at the Case Center for Pr...