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Sears think[box] and University Hospitals join forces to fight COVID-19
Devices being developed at ӰƵ’s public-access innovation center in collaboration with University Hospitals protect front-line health care workers Northeast Ohio health care workers on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 are benefitting from innovative devices being…
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Medical device developed by CWRU/UH researchers wins 2020 Edison Award
A medical device based on technology developed by three faculty members from ӰƵ and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) has won a prestigious 2020 Edison Best New Product Award. EsoCheck, a device designed to help detect precancerous changes in the…
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Researchers using Artificial Intelligence to find out which COVID-19 patients are most likely to need ventilators
ӰƵ lab using digital images of chest scans from coronavirus patients from Wuhan, China, to teach its computers to triage patients Researchers at the ӰƵ lab, which has become a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven precision…
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Triple alum, seven-time Emmy Award-winner William F. Baker to deliver virtual CWRU commencement address
As a seven-time Emmy Award-winning commercial broadcaster, William F. Baker helped launch such household names as Oprah Winfrey, presided over New York Public Television’s heyday as the nation’s pre-eminent producer of arts, nature, biography and public-affairs programming and helped create the…
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Reaching toward a cure for sickle cell disease
ӰƵ awarded $3.7 million to assess clinical trials at U.S. sites in wide-ranging effort to cure blood disease nationally, worldwide The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has awarded ӰƵ up to $3.7 million to assess emerging…
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Mapping the COVID-19 risk
ӰƵ professors testing publicly available program that gives real-time, location-based risk assessment for transmission of novel coronavirus Public-health experts and government officials have been calling for “social distancing,” asking people to stay home and avoid…
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Hospital patients can do their part in COVID-19 fight
ӰƵ nurse scientist explains why hand hygiene is important for patients, not just doctors and nurses, in hospital setting A clinical researcher who has studied the lack of hygiene practices among hospital patients is urging hospitals—and those who end up there—to do…
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Medievalist and art history professor Elina Gertsman awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship
Chosen among select class of 175 artists, writers, scholars and scientists Elina Gertsman’s fascination with medieval art began in her childhood spent in Tallinn, Estonia, a city that’s marked with its medieval past: ramparts, towers, churches, guild halls and town square that also reflect its…
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$6M, five-year NIH grant extends funding for collaborative Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center
A new $6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health extends funding for the Silvio O. Conte Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC), a cross-institutional collaboration of digestive disease investigators. In 2015, an initial $6 million, five-year NIH grant…
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XaTek Inc. receives FDA’s "Breakthrough Devices Designation" for CWRU-licensed ClotChip technology
Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc. a “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for ClotChip, an important step in advancing the company’s portable blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization. The…