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Professor explores link between lead poisoning, juvenile delinquency

Katharine Toledo, Staff Reporter April 5, 2019

Through Case Western Reserve University’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Professor Rob Fischer is working on an initiative to find a link between lead poisoning, usually resulting...

School of Medicine professor’s research leads to big money for startup

Maryam Iqbal, Staff Reporter March 29, 2019

March 13 was a happy day for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Professor of Neuroscience Jerry Silver. After 30 years of research on “basic mechanisms that can robustly enhance nerve...

CWRU researchers work to analyze “signaling language” in sexual assault cases

Virginia Behmer, Staff Reporter March 22, 2019

Researchers from the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS) have received a $715,000 grant from the...

International Honor Society inducts CWRU researcher into Hall of Fame

Nihal Manjila, Staff Reporter March 22, 2019

This year, a Case Western Reserve University nurse researcher will be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) Researcher Hall of Fame. Joachim Voss is a professor...

Professor receives grant to develop nanoscale protein delivery systems

Ibtesam Ghazy, Staff Reporter January 25, 2019

Dr. John “Chip” Tilton, an associate professor and director of Immunobiology in the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at the CWRU School of Medicine will be receiving $300,000 from the Dr. Ralph...

CWRU earns $500,000 from tech startup fund for third time

Nihal Manjila, Staff Reporter January 25, 2019

This year CWRU earned a $500,000 grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund for the testing and commercialization of technologies being developed by faculty and researchers....

Professor researches ethical growth, use of human brain organoids

Nathan Lesch, Staff Reporter January 25, 2019

Beginning in 2018 with a funding proposal to the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Brain Initiative, The Brainstorm Project investigates the ethical questions that arise from growing human brain organoids...

Research group applauds University’s disability services, women’s resources

Jahci Perry-Richardson, Staff Reporter September 14, 2018

Case Western Reserve University does not just boast a physical on-campus presence, but an online presence as well. With 14 master’s programs and two certificates available for completion in a variety...

Spotlight On: Research

Katharine Toledo, Staff Reporter September 14, 2018

More than a decade ago, Dr. Charles King and David Gurarie teamed up to simulate outbreaks of schistosomiasis using complex modeling. King, a professor of international health at the Case Western Reserve...

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