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  • UH/CWRU Radiology resident receives RSNA grant

    Kaustav Bera received a Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 1-year Research Resident Grant for the project, "MR Fingerprinting for the Evaluation of Chronic Allograft Nephropathy: Reproducibility of the Technique and Correlation With Renal Function and Histopathology." Bera's mentors are Dr. Sree Tirumani and Dr. Yong Chen from…

  • Brady-Kalnay Awarded Funding from The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

    Susann Brady-Kalnay, PhD, Professor, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Neurosciences, and Pathology, CWRU School of Medicine, received funding from The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation for her work titled "Use of magnetic resonance fingerprinting for determining response to immunotherapy in pediatric brain tumors."

  • News 5 Cleveland: New grant allows local researchers to use AI to treat rectal cancer

    News 5 Cleveland highlighted the work of Satish Viswanath, CCIR member and associate professor, BME at CWRU about a new NIH and NCI grant to continue research in AI to treat rectal cancer. "It's been a long time coming to get to this stage where, we can validate it on a larger scale," Viswanath said.

  • Researchers awarded $2.78M federal grant to improve rectal cancer treatment with artificial intelligence

    With a new five-year, $2.78 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, researchers at ӰƵ (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals (UH) will use artificial intelligence (AI) to better treat rectal cancer patients. The…

  • Mission Possible: Researching nanobubbles to better fight cancer

    WKYC Cleveland Channel 3 highlighted the work of Dr. Agata Exner and the Exner Lab on ultrasound-sensitive nanobubbles. This more targeted treatment could “spare the normal tissue and spare the systemic side effects that are associated with chemotherapy, with radiation therapy and with surgery," Exner said.

  • AI’s keen diagnostic eye

    In a Nature article, Shuo Li, PhD, discusses how virtual contrast agents powered by AI could highlight the same hidden features as contrast dyes.

  • Center for AI Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology (AID2B) established at CWRU

    The establishment of the new Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology (AID2B) at CWRU School of Medicine, spearheaded by Satish E. Viswanath, PhD and Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil, will leverage AI to help understand the mysteries of disease and improve people’s health.

  • Congratulations to the Morgenthaler Pavey Startup Competition Venture Track Winners

    The 2024 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition grand prize, first place in the Venture Track, went to Lighthanded Enterprises, co-founded by Dr. Brecken Blackburn, postdoctoral researcher in BME and CCIR Trainee Council education chair. 

  • Two CCIR labs highlighted in the CWRU Daily to celebrate World Laboratory Day

    CCIR faculty members Dr. Agata Exner and Dr. Shuo Li, shared their teams' research and hopes for these efforts as part of a CWRU Daily article for World Laboratory Day.

  • National Academy of Inventors names seven CWRU researchers to 2024 class of senior members

    The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named seven CWRU researchers to its 2024 class of senior members, recognizing their “remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society.” Four are CCIR members: Jim Basilion, Agata Exner, Anirban Sen Gupta, and David Wilson.…