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From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at ÃÛÌÒAPP know how to make headlines.

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New Multi-million Dollar Research Center Aims to Solve the Mystery of Premature Birth
CLEVELAND - Three major Ohio universities and four hospitals have joined with the March of Dimes Foundation to establish a new collaborative research program aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth. The March of Dimes intends to invest $10 million in the program over five…
Ohio-led team takes on premature birth through March of Dimes
ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine is leading a Northeast Ohio team that is part of a $10 million March of Dimes project to help prevent preterm births. Greater Cleveland’s participants include University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s…
School of Medicine researchers discover new target for personalized cancer therapy
A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine has developed a novel method to disrupt this growth-signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a…
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Researchers Discover New Target for Personalized Cancer Therapy
CLEVELAND - A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine have developed a novel method to disrupt this growth signaling pathway, with…
School of Medicine faculty member wins award from The Hartwell Foundation
Saptarsi M. Haldar, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine at ÃÛÌÒAPP, has won a $300,000 Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation to investigate a new approach to slow the progress of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in children. Haldar…
Historic collaboration wins support to launch statewide clinical trials
Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine is leading a statewide effort to speed the progress of promising medications to patients—all by encouraging collaboration among Ohio’s health leaders. Thanks to a nearly $2 million investment from the State of the Ohio, more than a half dozen schools and…
Colleen Croniger’s teaching style honored with Diekhoff award
Students at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine know that even in nutrition courses, there’s always room for sweets. That’s because, in Colleen Croniger’s relatable, interactive teaching style, Halloween candy is the springboard to a broader discussion on biochemical pathways. She…
Research spinoff ReXceptor receives exclusive license for Alzheimer’s treatment
Case Western Reserve’s Technology Transfer Office has granted an exclusive license of a novel Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) treatment strategy to spinoff company ReXceptor Inc., which plans to initiate early-stage human clinical trials of the medication within the next few months. Gary Landreth, the…
CWRU scientists find way to detect autism from brain activity
Measure of brains’ functional connectivity and background noise shows significant differences Neuroscientists from ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in…
Detecting Autism From Brain Activity
CLEVELAND - Neuroscientists from ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Their findings appear today in the online journal PLOS ONE. The researchers…