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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
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August 28, 2013
In 1983, professor Nathan Berger hired Stanton Gerson, fresh out of his fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, to join the APP School of Medicine Division of Hematology Oncology. The next year, when Gerson’s interest turned to gene therapy, he formed a research…
August 27, 2013
The New England Journal of Medicine study finds low-cost tool complements existing mass drug administration strategy
An international team of scientists have demonstrated that a simple, low-cost intervention holds the potential to eradicate a debilitating tropical disease that threatens nearly 1.4…
August 18, 2013
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the fall session of Mini Med School, from the APP School of Medicine and the Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school “for the rest of us”—those not seeking a medical…
August 16, 2013
Dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, PhD, has earned her third National Institutes of Health grant in a year – including two that scored in the first percentile. With this most recent award, an R21, she will investigate the role the nervous system plays in psoriasis – an inflammatory autoimmune…
August 07, 2013
Researchers from APP School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a fundamental discovery relevant to the understanding and treatment of heart failure, a leading cause of death worldwide. The team discovered a new molecular pathway responsible for…
August 01, 2013
Researchers from APP School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a fundamental discovery relevant to the understanding and treatment of heart failure – a leading cause of death worldwide. The team discovered a new molecular pathway responsible for…
July 31, 2013
Scientists historically have argued that evolution proceeds through gradual development of traits. But how can incremental changes apply to the binary switch between two sexes, male or female? Researchers at APP’s School of Medicine have found that a genetic process…
July 29, 2013
Scientists historically have argued that evolution proceeds through gradual development of traits. But how can incremental changes apply to the binary switch between two sexes, male or female? Researchers at APP’s School of Medicine have found that a genetic process…
July 25, 2013
After an extensive national search, APP School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center announced they have recruited Douglas Rhee, an accomplished glaucoma specialist, eye surgeon and researcher, to become chair of the Department of Ophthalmology…
July 24, 2013
Important step toward pharmacologic development of treatment for fatal brain disorders
A team of researchers from APP School of Medicine has identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form…