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Guest Author: Greg Cooper Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death in this country, though over the past decade, both the incidence and mortality have been declining.  Colorectal screening is universally recommended as a means to detect premalignant adenomas as well as…

Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD Welcome to the first issue of our new electronic newsletter. Each month we’ll be providing news and stories about ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine and the terrific people who help make us a center of medical education excellence and a…

Welcome to the first issue of our new electronic newsletter. Each month we’ll be providing news and stories about ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine and the terrific people who help make us a center of medical education excellence and a mainstay of Cleveland’s economy. The…

A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading AIDS scientists reveal results that lead the way to the development of an effective human vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  In the study published in Nature Medicine, researchers worked with a species of Old World monkeys,…

Turning the art of a trefoil knot into polymer science is no easy process, but researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP developed a technique that produces a long chain molecule with the desired pretzel-like shape. Knotted polymers, sometimes found in nature, produce different properties…

Having Vice President Joe Biden kick-off the post Cancer Moonshot Summit national campaign in Cleveland - what a day!! The Vice President came to the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center because we proposed a concerted effort to develop interventional science driven…

Researchers find small-scale structures produce important effects using new computer codes Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe and the growth of…

Jonathan Karn, PhD, an HIV/AIDS expert from ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, has received two Innovation research grants out of seven allocated in the United States and Canada as part of an international effort to find a scientific basis for a cure of HIV/AIDS by 2020. The…

ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine experts and colleagues in the United States and Africa have received an $11 million, five-year NIH grant to understand why some people living with HIV in Africa avoid becoming infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) despite…

A ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine faculty member has received $998,500 from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a new approach to improve the quality and quantity of limbs and tissues obtained from brain dead organ donors. Benefits also could be extended to the more…