New study offers added hope for patients awaiting corneal transplants January 9, 2018Donor tissue can be stored for 11 days before transplantation—four days longer than current convention New national research...FeaturedHealth & Wellness·
Alevca Ocular gains CWRU Technology Transfer licenses to develop and commercialize novel ophthalmological drugs January 5, 2018Alevca Ocular LLC has secured licenses from Case Western Reserve University’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO) to exclusively use...FeaturedHealth & WellnessUniversity News·
Researchers receive Department of Defense grant for implantable muscle stimulator January 3, 2018Device aims to benefit patients with spinal cord injuries, including combat veterans A team of researchers led by...FeaturedHealth & Wellness·
Case Western Reserve research advance may prevent a form of hereditary hearing loss December 21, 2017Four-fold improvement in hearing for a mouse model of deafness A research advance co-led by Case Western Reserve...FeaturedHealth & Wellness·
School of Medicine researcher receives NIH grants to uncover connection between abnormal embryonic brain development and autism December 19, 2017Will probe link among cell-signaling defects, rapid cell growth and enlarged brains One hypothesis for how autism develops...FeaturedHealth & Wellness·
Winds of change on Lake Erie December 14, 2017Case Western Reserve researcher tests new methods to anchor wind turbines, part of LEEDCo, Icebreaker Windpower project There...FeaturedScience & Tech·
Space scientist, geologist Farouk El-Baz to receive 2018 Inamori Ethics Prize December 11, 2017Recipient played central role in Apollo space missions and worldwide desert groundwater exploration As Apollo 11 slowly descended...AwardsFeaturedUniversity News·
Mapping out a biorobotic future December 7, 2017Case Western Reserve “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields You might not think a...FeaturedScience & Tech·
Award-winning journalist, 2017 MacArthur Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones to headline 2018 MLK Convocation December 5, 2017In high school, Nikole Hannah-Jones discovered both a profession and a purpose. Working for the school newspaper, she...FeaturedUniversity News·
Researchers find infectious prions in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patient skin November 30, 2017Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—the human equivalent of mad cow disease—is caused by rogue, misfolded protein aggregates termed prions, which...FeaturedHealth & Wellness·
