A professor from CWRU's School of Dental Medicine discusses a treatment plan with his students at the annual Admitting Days dental clinic
A professor from CWRU's School of Dental Medicine discusses a treatment plan with his students at the annual Admitting Days dental clinic on Sept. 18. Patients are treated by third- and fourth-year dental students and residents, with supervision from dental school faculty members.

Dental Medicine’s Aaron Weinberg and Medicine’s Parameswaran Ramakrishnan test antiviral molecules as a defense against SARS-CoV-2

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Aaron Weinberg, professor at the School of Dental Medicine, and Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, professor of pathology and biochemistry, recently co-authored a study investigating a method for impeding the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at the molecular level. Weinberg, Ramakrishnan and colleagues tested the efficacy of human beta defensins in inhibiting the spread of CoV-2 into human cells. 

Weinberg’s and Ramakrishnan’s study, “HBD-2 binds SARS-CoV-2 RBD and blocks viral entry: Strategy to combat COVID-19,” was published by ResearchGate, Science Direct, PubMed, to name a few. 

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