Science + Tech
August 13, 2012
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s ambitious collaboration to bring medical discoveries to patients has won an extraordinary endorsement: a $64.6 million federal grant that is the largest ever awarded in Northeast Ohio. “Five years ago Cleveland’s leading biomedical institutions came together in an…
August 10, 2012
CLEVELAND - ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s ambitious collaboration to bring medical discoveries to patients has won an extraordinary endorsement: a $64.6 million federal grant that is the largest ever awarded in Northeast Ohio. “Five years ago Cleveland’s leading biomedical institutions came…
July 26, 2012
Cleveland – The Ohio Third Frontier Commission unanimously awarded ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), $2.4 million for its OH-Alive Innovator Platform: A Process and Manufacturing Platform for Cell Therapy.  These funds must be matched by NCRM and…
July 20, 2012
CLEVELAND - Nationally renowned researcher Mukesh K. Jain, MD, of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine has been elected to serve as vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). In the subsequent two years he will serve as president elect and ultimately…
July 19, 2012
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ physicists are part of a science project with the potential to be at least as huge as this month’s Higgs boson discovery—if not even greater. First described more than four decades ago, the Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives other particles mass. But that’s not…
July 15, 2012
Fuel cells are inefficient because the catalyst most commonly used to convert chemical energy to electricity is made of the wrong material, a researcher at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ argues. Rather than continue the futile effort to tweak that material—platinum—to make it work better,…
July 11, 2012
CLEVELAND - A new study published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of Neurosciences details the development of the first mouse model engineered to carry the most common mutation in Usher syndrome III causative gene (Clarin-1) in North America. Further, the research team from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ…
July 08, 2012
A team of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ engineers has designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under extreme temperatures, up to 600 degrees Celsius—a feat that was previously impossible. The silicon carbide amplifiers have applications in both aerospace and energy…
June 26, 2012
CLEVELAND - Following a national search, Cliff A. Megerian, MD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center. Dr. Megerian, currently Vice-Chair of the…
June 21, 2012
CLEVELAND - The opportunity to find common ground in health research between academia and community organizations is vast. Unwavering in its vision to work for the collective good, a new pilot program at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine aims to bolster these collaborations by…