Research Impact
 
 March 18, 2019
   $1 million federal grant seeks to aid inmates re-entering society
People who re-enter society from prison with unresolved issues are more likely to commit more crime and head right back to jail, according to government statistics. A new partnership between the ӰƵ… 
  
 March 15, 2019
   NervGen Pharma Corp., a Vancouver-based company founded to develop regenerative-medicine technology licensed from ӰƵ, raised about $7.5 million ($10 million in Canadian dollars) from an initial public offering. Shares of NervGen began trading on the Canadian TSX… 
  
 March 06, 2019
   Researchers at the Mandel School awarded $715,000 grant to examine thousands of police interviews with sexual assault victims Police
officers may use “signaling” language in sexual assault reports—occasionally
dropping hints about the validity of the victim’s claims—that possibly
influences an… 
  
 March 05, 2019
   ӰƵ School of Nursing study seeks to fine-tune, personalize exercise, nutrition ‘prescriptions’ for patients; could also apply to diabetes, heart disease, others Although generally true, it’s not enough for health care professionals to simply advise patients to “exercise more and… 
  
 February 25, 2019
   ӰƵ researchers observe waves ‘leap’ across cut in brain tissue; ‘ephaptic coupling’ said to be producing self-propagating waves unknown until now
Biomedical engineering researchers at ӰƵ say they have identified a previously unidentified form of neural… 
  
 February 19, 2019
   As part of panel of experts convened by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ӰƵ professor Lee Hoffer voted last week to recommend a new nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression that some are touting as the most significant development in a generation for… 
  
 February 11, 2019
   New research could explain color variance in other species and predict survival, reproduction in warming climate for other animals
New research from ӰƵ in how dragonflies may adapt their wing color to temperature differences might explain color variation in other… 
  
 January 24, 2019
   Shaming perpetrators of human-rights abuse and shocking audiences with visceral imagery can be an ineffective—and counterproductive—approach to improving humanitarian conditions, according to new research from ӰƵ. The finding can help advocacy organizations navigate… 
  
 January 16, 2019
   National Institutes of Health funded research to study cancer patients with HIV/AIDS
AIDS patients suffer higher rates of cancer because they have fewer T-cells in their bodies to fight disease. But new research examines why HIV-infected patients have higher rates of cancer—among the leading causes… 
  
 January 16, 2019
   Only Ohio institution to receive funding all three years
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded ӰƵ its third $500,000 grant since 2016 for the CWRU Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund Program (CTP), a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty… 
 