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A $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine will establish the NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR), a comprehensive, easily accessible and well-annotated national repository…

Derek Taylor, PhD, a member of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awards this grant to scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical…

ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases, rare neurodegenerative disorders that are always fatal. The researchers discovered that recombinant human prion protein stops the propagation of…

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages…

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and ÃÛÌÒAPP (CWRU) School of Medicine announce today that internationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Soon J. Park, MD, will join the two institutions October 14. Dr. Park will serve as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at UH…

Five Cleveland biomedical research and health care institutions have received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), one of the National Institutes of Health, to collaborate on developing the Cleveland Stroke Clinical Trials Regional…

ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers today published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases, rare neurodegenerative disorders that are always fatal. The researchers discovered that recombinant human prion protein stops the propagation…

Researchers from ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine have found unexpected similarities between proteins that were thought to be fundamentally different.   The team studied how proteins bind to RNA, a process required for gene expression. It is known that some proteins only bind…

CLEVELAND – October 1, 2013 – ÃÛÌÒAPP is among the major partners in a $10.2 million Ohio project designed to speed medical breakthroughs to patients – one of only three to win federal funding this year. The Cleveland Clinic is leading the initiative, which includes Case…

Researchers have made an exciting breakthrough – developing a first-of-its-kind imaging tool to examine myelin damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). An extremely difficult disease to diagnose, the tool will help physicians diagnose patients earlier, monitor the disease’s progression, and evaluate…