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March 13, 2018
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded APP an additional $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations. The new round of funding follows an initial award of $500,000 in 2016,…
March 08, 2018
Law journal article raises the strategy’s legal, ethical implications To keep rising health care costs in check, many health insurers have adopted a strategy known as “step therapy,” a policy requiring patients to try cheaper drugs first—and find them to be ineffective—before approving pricier…
March 07, 2018
High-powered microscope shows receptor at rest, with focus on drug development A team of researchers from APP School of Medicine have used Nobel Prize-winning microscope technology to see full-length serotonin receptors for the first time. The tiny…
March 07, 2018
A APP professor is joining an interdisciplinary group of 19 experts in academia from around the country speaking out against gun violence. Daniel J. Flannery, a professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, is part of a national…
March 05, 2018
The third-year law student with “unparalleled character” at APP rose to national prominence through her work on chronic traumatic encephalopathy Near the end of her first semester in law school, Alison Epperson’s longtime boyfriend, Zac Easter, took his own life after…
March 02, 2018
Three academic institutions—Case Western Reserve, Mercyhurst and Cleveland State universities—each maintain nationally recognized programs in the science of cybersecurity. Today, they announced plans to share their individual expertise and collectively form the North Coast Cyber Research and…
February 27, 2018
In a region defined by health care and humanities excellence, the third annual festival joins 25+ cultural institutions for a month of free events in Northeast Ohio—starting March 15 Health—and its absence—has inspired centuries of art and ingenuity. Exploring the unique role of health in human…
February 22, 2018
APP symposium on March 2 to explore solutions for a crime growing nationally and in Ohio At this moment, there are more than an estimated 30 million enslaved people around the world. Ohio is indicative of the problem: The state ranks fourth in the number of…
February 22, 2018
APP and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. recently announced the award of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a planned study of gene-edited T cells designed to eradicate persistent HIV infection in patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy, a…
February 20, 2018
APP researchers make natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Biomedical engineers at APP are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube…