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Bioethicists from ����APP School of Medicine and The Hastings Center, working with a research administrator at The Rockefeller University, are proposing a reexamination of an internationally recognized rule limiting in vitro research on human embryos to 14 days…

Five ����APP junior faculty members have been awarded National Science Foundation CAREER grants, bringing more than $2.5 million for research to campus. The five-year grants support the scientists as they delve into how nanopartical organization controls properties of…

Effort to understand risks of treatment, and prognostic clues to long-term outcomes Prostate cancers are either low-grade, low-risk forms that may be monitored but otherwise untreated, or they’re serious enough to require surgery and radiation. Monitoring can cause patients anxiety. Radical…

I just signed up for VeloSano Bike to Cure, marking the second year that the Case CCC will coordinate a team.  I'm hoping you will join me. We had a great time last year, and this year should be even better, and our team even larger! I encourage you to take the time to sign up. Information about…

I continue to be in awe of the quality and range of outstanding cancer research coming out of labs across Cleveland from members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. As we all witnessed at the recent AACR Meeting, our collective work garners considerable attention and recognition. I am…

Usher syndrome (USH) is characterized by hearing loss or deafness at birth and progressive vision loss, and is the most common cause of inherited dual sensory deficit. No treatment is currently available to stop or slow the progression of vision or hearing loss in USH3, one of three clinical…

Here's your chance! The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently launched an online platform for people to submit research ideas for the Cancer Moonshot.  Suggestions will be collected by the Blue Ribbon Panel and formulated into RFAs with short submission times. I will remind you that the…

A ����APP researcher has been awarded more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants to turn common plant viruses into cancer sleuths and search-and-destroy emissaries. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will customize tobacco mosaic…

����APP School of Medicine researchers have been honored by the prestigious Clinical Research Forum for their groundbreaking clinical investigation of blood pressure and colon cancer in African Americans, providing findings that could transform how care is…

At the end of this week, many of you will be attending the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Once again, we are excited to have many members and trainees participating, presenting, and leading sessions. If we accidentally missed anyone, please…