Health + Wellness
August 16, 2013
Dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, PhD, has earned her third National Institutes of Health grant in a year – including two that scored in the first percentile. With this most recent award, an R21, she will investigate the role the nervous system plays in psoriasis – an inflammatory autoimmune disea...
August 01, 2013
Researchers from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a fundamental discovery relevant to the understanding and treatment of heart failure – a leading cause of death worldwide. The team discovered a new molecular pathway responsible for ca...
July 29, 2013
Scientists historically have argued that evolution proceeds through gradual development of traits. But how can incremental changes apply to the binary switch between two sexes, male or female? Researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Medicine have found that a genetic process among...
July 19, 2013
CLEVELAND -- After an extensive national search, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) CaseMedical Center have named Douglas Rhee, MD, an accomplished glaucoma specialist, eye surgeon and researcher, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Scien...
July 18, 2013
CLEVELAND – July 18, 2013 – A team of researchers from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine have identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form responsible for neurodegenerative diseases. This finding, published...
July 03, 2013
CLEVELAND – July 1, 2013 – Culminating an extensive national search, Tony Wynshaw-Boris MD, PhD, accomplished researcher and expert in genetics, genomics and neurologic disorders, has been named chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medi...
July 02, 2013
CLEVELAND (July 2, 2013) -- ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement granting University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center rights to a series of diagnostic tests to determine drug resistance and co-receptor tropism in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ...
June 25, 2013
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ and Cleveland Clinic researchers build regeneration bridge
For the first time, researchers have restored significant bladder function through nerve regeneration in rats with the most severe spinal cord injuries (SCI). The breakthrough paired a traditional nerve bridge graft with...
June 05, 2013
CLEVELAND - Today, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine’s Weatherhead Institute for Family Medicine and Community Health are hosting the second annual Ohio Health Data Symposium, a meeting for research and public health experts. The collaboration...
May 25, 2013
CLEVELAND - Three major Ohio universities and four hospitals have joined with the March of Dimes Foundation to establish a new collaborative research program aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth. The March of Dimes intends to invest $10 million in the program over five ...