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New study shows how to protect the brain to prevent depression and cognitive impairment caused by whole brain radiotherapy
Research team from University Hospitals, APP and the Cleveland VA published results in Redox Biology
Recent News
August 18, 2015
Universities Allied for Essential Medicine (UAEM) will host a recruiting event today (Aug. 18) from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the School of Medicine, Room E321/323. UAEM is a student organization that seeks to improve access to medicine in low- and middle-income countries. Those who are interested in…
August 17, 2015
Case Western Reserve discovery explains KLF4 and mitochondrial connection in heart failure APP scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria—the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically,…
August 17, 2015
The School of Medicine will present the Hanna Symposium Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 2 to 9 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building auditorium. Speakers at the symposium will focus on genome instability and evolution. The symposium will feature the Hanna Lecture, given by Bernard Dujon, professor at…
August 10, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.3 million to Case Western Reserve to lead a collaborative study of how changes in food options affect residents’ nutritional choices and health over time. Called the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (dubbed foodNEST), the three-year…
August 07, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the fall session of Mini Med School, presented by APP School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school “for…
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion dangerous infection in the feet and hands often occurring with uncontrolled diabetes. It appears that high blood sugar unleashes destructive molecules that interfere with the body’s natural…
August 06, 2015
APP’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the…
August 04, 2015
APP scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria — the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, they determined KLF4’s pivotal role through its absence — that is, the mitochondria…
July 27, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from APP. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant…
July 23, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations — and it comes from Case Western Reserve. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results. Cancer…