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From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ know how to make headlines.
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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
Recent News
September 12, 2012
CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine, has discovered novel antivirulence drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pyogenes, commonly ref...
September 06, 2012
CLEVELAND - A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs furthers their time sober, consideration for others, step-work, and long-term meeting attendance.
These novel findings are from a 10-year, prospective investi...
August 30, 2012
CLEVELAND - The healthcare industry, along with many others, is drowning in data. From electronic medical records to Medicaid data, the volume of information continues to grow and much of it is inaccessible. Today, the Ohio Department of Health and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine ...
August 17, 2012
CLEVELAND - The three Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutions in Ohio — ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ, University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University — and their partnering institutions have established a statewide collaborative agreement allowing a single organization...
August 13, 2012
CLEVELAND - A team of researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine, led by Dr. Mark W. Jackson, have developed a novel method to identify genes that, when overexpressed, make normal cells behave like cancer cells. Using this method, the Jackson laboratory has identified a new on...
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 ...
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 it...
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 pres...
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 ...
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 depart...