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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, ÃÛÌÒAPP and the Cleveland VA published results in Redox Biology
Recent News
July 08, 2015
Randall Cebul A new study published in the July issue of Health Affairs, the preeminent journal on health care policy, found that poor, uninsured patients who enrolled in a Medicaid-like insurance plan had better care and health outcomes than those who remained uninsured. In addition, across all…
June 17, 2015
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at ÃÛÌÒAPP, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional…
June 12, 2015
Research focuses on select tissues injured through disease, surgery and transplants, but early findings indicate potential for broad applications The concept sounds like the stuff of science fiction: take a pill, and suddenly new tissues grow to replace damaged ones. Researchers at Case Western…
June 12, 2015
Department of Defense awards School of Medicine’s Kath Bogie grant to work on spinal cord injuries
The Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program awarded Kath Bogie, adjunct assistant professor of orthopaedics, a $561,850 grant. Bogie, who is a principal investigator with the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans…
June 08, 2015
Instrument’s super-magnification of retina would enhance early detection of eye disease and could accelerate developing new eye therapies Krzysztof Palczewski Imagine an instrument that peers deep inside the eye and sees how well the retina’s cells function. Such advanced technology would…
June 02, 2015
Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP combined finely crafted nanoparticles with one of nature’s potent disrupters to prevent the spread of triple-negative breast cancer in mouse models. The highly aggressive cancer subtype is difficult to manage and the FDA has no approved targeted…
May 28, 2015
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and CWRU School of Medicine to expand minority fellowship and interprofessional education
The KeyBank Foundation announced a grant of $2 million to Cleveland Clinic and ÃÛÌÒAPP, which will support a combined effort to enhance and…
May 26, 2015
Two ÃÛÌÒAPP students will spend the next year abroad as recipients of Fulbright Scholarships. Michael Bane, a fifth-year PhD candidate in music, is the third Fulbright Scholar from the music department in the last three years; he’ll study French musical history in Paris.…
May 21, 2015
Imagine an instrument that peers deep inside the eye and sees how well the retina’s cells function. Such advanced technology would provide unprecedented options for early detection of disease – not only of the eye, but other organs as well. Case Western Reserve Professor Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD,…
May 20, 2015
Only university awarded in national competition Brian Grimberg, lead researcher and assistant professor of international health While the industrialized world has been free of malaria for 50 years, the disease remains a major humanitarian issue that affects the health and quality of life of…