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Released: 11-Nov-2021 3:15 PM EST
New method for enabling a more reliable electric grid
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University chemical engineers are working on a new generation of smaller, safer and less expensive batteries they say could allow electrical energy to be stored four times longer.

Newswise: Case Western Reserve University receives $16M federal grant to launch major research center on substance use and HIV
Released: 25-Oct-2021 3:40 PM EDT
Case Western Reserve University receives $16M federal grant to launch major research center on substance use and HIV
Case Western Reserve University

Thanks to a new $16 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, Case Western Reserve University is launching a multi-institutional research effort dedicated to deepening understanding of the relationship between substance use and HIV.

Newswise: TraumaChekTM: Next step in life-saving blood-assessment technology
Released: 20-Oct-2021 2:00 PM EDT
TraumaChekTM: Next step in life-saving blood-assessment technology
Case Western Reserve University

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University are leading the development of TraumaChekTM, a hand-held medical device to quickly assess a wounded soldier’s critical clotting issues and other blood conditions in the battlefield. The new sensor, if successful and adopted in the field, would represent the next generation of their successful ClotChip®, which emergency workers can use to measure how well a patient’s blood may clot.

Newswise: New materials proposed for capturing carbon dioxide to fight climate change
Released: 13-Oct-2021 2:05 PM EDT
New materials proposed for capturing carbon dioxide to fight climate change
Case Western Reserve University

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Burcu Gurkan, Nord Distinguished Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering, and her team a three-year, $3.6 million grant to investigate a new technology using novel materials to remove CO2 from ambient air.

Released: 11-Oct-2021 3:10 PM EDT
‘Transformative’ $18.2M grant seeks to address health disparities for Black patients in Cleveland, Detroit
Case Western Reserve University

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute are leading a multi-organizational effort to address cardiovascular health disparities, thanks to a new “transformative” $18.2 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s P50 program.

5-Oct-2021 4:55 PM EDT
New Case Western Reserve University, National Institute on Drug Abuse study finds people with substance-use disorders may be at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections
Case Western Reserve University

An analysis of electronic health records of nearly 580,000 fully vaccinated people in the United States found that while the risk of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection among those with substance-use disorders was low overall, it was higher for people who misuse substances such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and opioids.

1-Sep-2021 5:00 PM EDT
New study: Nursing home residents, health care workers lose more than 80% of their COVID-19 immunity six months after Pfizer vaccine
Case Western Reserve University

A new, multi-institutional study led by Case Western Reserve University—in partnership with Brown University—found that COVID-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine decreased sharply in senior nursing home residents and their caregivers six months after receiving their second shots.

Released: 24-Aug-2021 1:20 PM EDT
Early-warning system for sepsis shown to improve survival rates and cut hospital stays, new study finds
Case Western Reserve University

Emergency room patients who were flagged by an artificial intelligence algorithm for possibly having sepsis received antibiotics sooner and had better outcomes, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted by physician-researchers at Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth.

Released: 23-Aug-2021 1:00 PM EDT
New $3 million National Science Foundation center aims to connect materials data science research to industry
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University and the University of Pittsburgh will launch a joint center this fall that uses cutting edge data-science and materials research to help companies make more reliable and durable products. The Center for Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation (MDS-Rely) is a $3 million center supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) .

20-Aug-2021 6:00 PM EDT
First atomic-level imaging of lethal prions provide sharpened focus for potential treatments
Case Western Reserve University

The highest-ever resolution imaging of an infectious prion provides the first atomic-level data of how these abnormal proteins are assembled to cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in people and animals—and how they can be potentially targeted by new therapies.

Released: 18-Aug-2021 1:55 PM EDT
Data and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Take on Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Case Western Reserve University

Computer and data science researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tool to public health and other officials make more informed decisions when faced with infectious disease outbreaks. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $1.2 million grant to support the project, led by Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, the Theodore L. and Dana J. Schroeder Associate Professor of computer and data sciences at Case Western Reserve’s Case School of Engineering.

   
Released: 12-Aug-2021 10:00 AM EDT
Investigators expand Alzheimer’s disease genetics research with a focus on people in the U.S. with African ancestry
Case Western Reserve University

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, with colleagues from multiple research centers, will study the genomics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in people with African heritage throughout the United States.

Released: 6-Aug-2021 11:15 AM EDT
Artificial Intelligence Aids in Discovery of New Prognostic Biomarkers for Breast Cancer
Case Western Reserve University

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify new biomarkers for breast cancer that can predict whether the cancer will return after treatment—and which can be identified from routinely acquired tissue biopsy samples of early-stage breast cancer.

Released: 29-Jul-2021 12:05 PM EDT
Case Western Reserve Data Scientists Among National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
Case Western Reserve University

Vipin Chaudhary, chair of computer and data sciences at Case Western Reserve, is co-primary investigator on the new grant announced today by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). He will collaborate with Ohio State computer science and engineering professor Dhabaleshwar Panda, the primary investigator on the project, which will focus on building AI systems for agricultural and wildlife management systems.

Released: 28-Jul-2021 3:20 PM EDT
How a Microscopic Fungus Could Lead to a Breakthrough in Oral Cancer Research
Case Western Reserve University

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University are hoping a new study could lead to a medical breakthrough in understanding certain types of oral cancer.

Released: 27-Jul-2021 11:45 AM EDT
mRNA Vaccinations vs COVID-19 Risk in Teens – Vaccinations are Safer
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University researchers have demonstrated that the risk for myocarditis/pericarditis (heart inflammation) among male teens (12-17) diagnosed with COVID-19 is nearly 6 times higher than their combined risk following first and second doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The risk for myocarditis/pericarditis among girls (ages 12-17) is 21 times greater from COVID-19 than from vaccines.

Released: 22-Jul-2021 8:35 AM EDT
CWRU School of Law to Offer New Master’s Degree and Certificates in Compliance and Risk Management, Starting with a Specialization in Health Care
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University launches new program meet the increasing demand by health care-related businesses and government agencies for experts in state, federal and international laws and regulations

Released: 7-Jul-2021 9:40 AM EDT
CWRU Scientist’s Team Receives $1.2 Million W.M. Keck Foundation Research Grant to Determine How Ecological Factors Affect Evolution
Case Western Reserve University

A Case Western Reserve University researcher is leading an interdisciplinary global team that will use state-of-the-art technology to tackle an ancient question: How did ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors millions of years ago? The possible answers so intrigued the W. M. Keck Foundation that it awarded Armington Professor Beverly Saylor and her colleagues a $1.2 million grant to explore them.

16-Jun-2021 2:55 PM EDT
Unraveling the Origin of Alzheimer’s Disease
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions—misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases—have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain.

Released: 7-Jun-2021 12:50 PM EDT
New invasive fish discovered, threatening waters of southern United States
Case Western Reserve University

The discovery of the Lowland Cichlid (Herichthys carpintis) spells bad news for natural-resource managers and conservationists already contending with the Rio Grande Cichlid, especially in Louisiana.

Released: 25-May-2021 9:20 AM EDT
Case Western Reserve-led research team aims to determine which diabetic individuals can successfully donate corneas for transplant (and which should not)
Case Western Reserve University

In a new study, supported by a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, researchers from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Jaeb Center for Health Research, aim to finally determine which diabetic individuals can successfully donate their corneas for keratoplasty (and which should not).

Released: 19-May-2021 9:35 AM EDT
Case Western Reserve researchers identify potential new approach to better controlling epileptic seizures
Case Western Reserve University

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have identified a potential new approach to better controlling epileptic seizures. Lin Mei, professor and chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, who led the new study in mouse models, said the team found a new chemical reaction that could help control epileptic seizures.

Released: 12-May-2021 1:05 PM EDT
Bringing medical AI closer to reality
Case Western Reserve University

For AI to continue to transform cancer diagnoses, researchers will have to prove that the success of their machine-learning tools can be reproduced from site to site and among different patient populations. Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University say they doing just that. They say they have demonstrated that their novel algorithms for distinguishing between benign and malignant lung cancer nodules on CT scan images from one site can now be successfully reproduced with patients from other sites and locations.

   
Released: 4-May-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Examining the ‘service cliff’ for youth with autism and their family caregivers
Case Western Reserve University

A team of researchers from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences interviewed 174 families to examine the use of health, medical and social services for youth with autism

Released: 29-Apr-2021 7:05 AM EDT
Ultra-high field MRI detects subtle differences in structure and function of brain’s ‘hippocampus’ in people with Down syndrome
Case Western Reserve University

Using ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the brains of people with Down syndrome (DS), researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and other institutions detected subtle differences in the structure and function of the hippocampus—a region of the brain tied to memory and learning.

Released: 12-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Case Western Reserve awarded $3 million National Cancer Institute grant to apply AI to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients
Case Western Reserve University

Medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University, New York University (NYU), and University Hospitals have been awarded a five-year, $3 million National Cancer Institute grant to develop and apply artificial intelligence (AI) tools for predicting which lung cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy.

Released: 1-Apr-2021 7:05 AM EDT
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation—continuing Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s century-old tradition of caring for Northeast Ohio—has expanded its commitment to the region through a $1 million challenge grant to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. With this grant, the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation has provided over $31 million in lifetime support for Case Western Reserve.

Released: 31-Mar-2021 7:05 AM EDT
Case Western Reserve University biotech startup Rodeo Therapeutics Corp. sold to Amgen Inc.
Case Western Reserve University

Rodeo Therapeutics Corp., a drug-development startup founded by two leading researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a third scientific partner, has been sold to Amgen Inc., a publicly traded international biopharmaceutical company. Under terms of the agreement, Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, California, will acquire all outstanding shares of Rodeo for $55 million, plus “future contingent milestone payments potentially worth up to an additional $666 million in cash,” the companies announced today. Total consideration to Rodeo stakeholders could potentially be worth up to $721 million in cash.

Released: 29-Mar-2021 10:40 AM EDT
Double alumnus, former Microsoft COO Robert Herbold commits $2 million to Case Western Reserve for an endowed professorship recognizing transformative teaching
Case Western Reserve University

Robert Herbold, who earned his MS in mathematics in 1966 and PhD in computer science in 1968 at Case Western Reserve University, has committed $2 million to endow an engineering professorship to recognize and support a faculty member who excels at teaching, builds new curricula and actively mentors students.

Released: 22-Mar-2021 12:40 PM EDT
New Barrett’s esophagus monitoring method could aid in easier and more precise prognoses
Case Western Reserve University

A new technique for sampling and testing cells from Barrett’s esophagus (BE) patients could result in earlier and easier identification of patients whose disease has progressed toward cancer or whose disease is at high risk of progressing toward cancer.

9-Mar-2021 8:05 AM EST
New study provides insights into architecture of abnormal protein deposits in brain disorders
Case Western Reserve University

Scientists at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have determined the structure of protein “fibrils” linked to Lou Gehrig’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders—findings that provide clues to how toxic proteins clump and spread between nerve cells in the brain.

Released: 4-Mar-2021 4:30 PM EST
International team of bioethicists and scientists suggests revisiting 14-day limit on human embryo research for potential health and fertility benefits
Case Western Reserve University

An international team of bioethicists and scientists, led by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University, contends it may be justified to go beyond the standing 14-day limit that restricts how long researchers can study human embryos in a dish. Going beyond this policy limit could lead to potential health and fertility benefits, and the authors provide a process for doing so.

Released: 1-Mar-2021 4:25 PM EST
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to lead Northeast Ohio initiative to increase prostate cancer screening in African American men
Case Western Reserve University

African American men in Cuyahoga County have a 60% increased risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and an 80% increased risk of dying from prostate cancer compared to white men, according to data from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. With a new $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University will collaborate with a team of community partners in a different approach to fight this health disparity.

Released: 25-Feb-2021 5:20 PM EST
Study finds more active-duty police officers died of COVID-19 in 2020 than all other causes combined
Case Western Reserve University

Of the 264 police officers who died in the line of duty in 2020 across the United States, more than half died of COVID-19, according to new data.

Released: 24-Feb-2021 11:00 AM EST
Pandemic compounds psychosocial issues for sexual, gender minorities (SGM)
Case Western Reserve University

The weight of isolation and loss of social connection caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing psychosocial-emotional issues already experienced by adults who identify as sexual or gender minorities (SGM). And while many people globally and across the United States—regardless of their gender identity—are experiencing pandemic anxiety at some level, those who identify as SGM appear to have been disproportionally affected by the pandemic both physically and mentally.

Released: 22-Feb-2021 1:45 PM EST
International study finds increased COVID-19 mortality among adults with Down syndrome
Case Western Reserve University

A new study by an international team of researchers found that adults with Down syndrome are more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population, supporting the need to prioritize vaccinating people with the genetic disorder.

Released: 19-Feb-2021 10:10 AM EST
New $2.5 million gift to Case Western Reserve will establish home for nurse leadership academy
Case Western Reserve University

Located in the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic, the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy will offer a collaborative, welcoming and high-tech space for students and faculty to deepen their learning and research.

Released: 17-Feb-2021 3:25 PM EST
Taking new steps with artificial platelets
Case Western Reserve University

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.1 million, four-year research grant to Anirban Sen Gupta at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and collaborators at the University of Michigan and University of North Carolina, to advance the design of artificial platelets that can promote and stabilize clots to stop bleeding.

Released: 15-Feb-2021 11:00 AM EST
Preventing pressure injuries
Case Western Reserve University

A team of researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case School of Engineering and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is developing a blood-test device as an early warning system to help prevent pressure injuries.

Released: 12-Feb-2021 4:45 PM EST
Why rape victims are so often left to solve their own cases
Case Western Reserve University

In a new study, Case Western Reserve University researchers identified some of the primary gaps in the connective tissue of the criminal justice system—among them failures to test rape kit DNA samples to unjustified doubts of victims’ statements.

Released: 11-Feb-2021 10:30 AM EST
Rohan Akolkar elected senior member of National Academy of Inventors
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer and researcher Rohan Akolkar has been elected as a Senior Member of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Released: 10-Feb-2021 11:00 AM EST
Case Western Reserve researchers uncover biochemical rules between RNA-protein interactions and expression of thousands of genes
Case Western Reserve University

A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has found a way to measure key characteristics of proteins that bind to RNA in cells—a discovery that could improve our understanding of how gene function is disturbed in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders or infections.

28-Jan-2021 9:25 AM EST
Case Western Reserve University-Led Team Finds That People with Dementia at Higher Risk for COVID-19
Case Western Reserve University

A study led by Case Western Reserve University researchers found that patients with dementia were at a significantly increased risk for COVID-19—and the risk was higher still for African Americans with dementia.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 3:10 PM EST
Making the ClotChip military ready
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University researchers who developed a portable sensor to assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood are working with the U.S. Navy to develop a rugged version of the device to detect problems with blood coagulation in cases of traumatic injury and preserve critical blood supplies.

   
Released: 26-Jan-2021 11:15 AM EST
Making solar power more efficient
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University computer scientists and energy technology experts are teaming up to leverage the diagnostic power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make solar-power plants more efficient.

Released: 25-Jan-2021 10:40 AM EST
Microsoft features Case Western Reserve’s signature software for anatomy education at two online events
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University’s HoloAnatomy® Software Suite will star this week in online events that Microsoft is hosting for colleges and universities-- Tuesday, Jan. 26, in a webinar titled “A New Vision for Medical Education” and Wednesday, Jan. 27, in Microsoft’s HoloLens Industry Summit, which will include an education break-out session.

Released: 21-Jan-2021 11:00 AM EST
NeuroReality™: The Future of Telepresence
Case Western Reserve University

Dustin Tyler, Founder of Human Fusions Institute at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Shelly Palmer, CEO of The Palmer Group, discuss Human Fusions Institute, NeuroReality™, and the future of human-tech relationships in a virtual meeting.

Released: 13-Jan-2021 10:40 AM EST
Artificial intelligence tool for reading MRI scans could transform prostate cancer surgery and treatment
Case Western Reserve University

Researchers at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at Case Western Reserve University have preliminarily validated an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to predict how likely the disease is to recur following surgical treatment for prostate cancer.

   


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