Reaching toward a cure for sickle cell disease April 23, 2020Case Western Reserve University awarded $3.7 million to assess clinical trials at U.S. sites in wide-ranging effort to...FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearchScience & Tech·
Mapping the COVID-19 risk April 20, 2020Case Western Reserve University professors testing publicly available program that gives real-time, location-based risk assessment for transmission of...FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearchScience & Tech·
Medievalist and art history professor Elina Gertsman awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship April 16, 2020Chosen among select class of 175 artists, writers, scholars and scientists Elina Gertsman’s fascination with medieval art began...FeaturedFeaturesHumanities, Art & Social SciencesPeopleResearch·
$6M, five-year NIH grant extends funding for collaborative Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center April 14, 2020A new $6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health extends funding for the Silvio O....FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearchUniversity News·
Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic: History alumnus and medical student shares lessons from our past April 3, 2020As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health care systems and disrupts industries worldwide, daily life may feel like uncharted...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social SciencesPeople·
Dealing with COVID-19 anxiety: CWRU psychology professor Jane Timmons-Mitchell offers tips for coping April 3, 2020The nation was already clinically anxious enough. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19% of American...FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearch·
XaTek Inc. receives FDA’s “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for CWRU-licensed ClotChip technology April 2, 2020Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc....FeaturedResearchScience & Tech·
Case Western Reserve University teams with Nottingham Spirk, Penn State Behrend to create COVID-19 face shields March 31, 2020Manufacturers in Akron, Cleveland and Erie (PA) to produce 5,000 shields per day An engineering team from Case...FeaturedHealth & WellnessScience & TechUniversity News·
Case Western Reserve chemist aims at COVID-19 following success with related virus March 31, 2020Lab led by researcher Blanton Tolbert partners with international scientists, seeks expanded NIH support to “target virus at...FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearchScience & Tech·
Q&A with School of Medicine’s Mark Cameron: Lessons learned from SARS March 27, 2020Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s...FeaturedHealth & WellnessPeople·