Innovation, influence and business in America's medical cities.

While many college students hope to find a job with any company upon graduation these days, a second-year Case Western Reserve University medical student already has raised $100,000 for his own medical device startup.

A Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals researcher has received a $4.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for development of a new class of drugs to help soldiers work in high altitudes.The drugs would selectively dilate blood cells that lack oxygen, enhancing soldiers’ performance at high altitudes.The defense contract likely [...]

The Center for AIDS Research at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center has received a five-year renewal grant of $9 million from the National Institutes of Health.The AIDS Research Center gives clinical and technological help to researchers working on HIV-related projects at the university and medical center, as well as at [...]

Case Western Reserve University researchers and their collaborators in England have taken the first image of an open K+ channel — the beginning of a better understanding of how and why heart and nerve drugs work for some people and not for others.The image and its analysis — featured in the July issue of the [...]

Updated 7:53 a.m., July 14, 2010.Hiroyuki Fujita is connecting the dots.The founder, president and chief executive of Quality Electrodynamics LLC, better known as QED, in Mayfield Village, Ohio, adopted the metaphor for business success from Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.The metaphor stuck with Fujita because it depicts his entrepreneurial journey, although he [...]

The promise of electronic health records (EHR) seems clear: The digital records of everything from prescriptions to CT scans could raise the quality and lower the cost of healthcare.Fulfilling this promise is likely to become more urgent as healthcare reform brings 35 million more Americans into the health insurance fold, all needing care.Some of us [...]

Case Western Reserve University has received a $640,000 grant that will help fund a student-run free clinic that’s slated to open next year.The funding for the Saturday-only clinic, which will be staffed by student doctors and nurses,comes from the Josiah A. Macy Foundation, according to a statement from Case. The proposed site for the student-run [...]

Ohio Third Frontier commissioners made a slew of biomedical grants under two programs today.Recommended for more than $4.9 million under the Ohio Third Frontier Biomedical Program:– CardioX Corp., Dublin, in collaboration with Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates in Cleveland and QTest Labs in Columbus, was awarded $986,373 to finalize designs and clinical protocols for a new method [...]

The recently announced Philips Healthcare Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center could bolster Northeast Ohio’s reputation as a hub for innovation in medical imaging technology.But it also could do a lot for the research and clinical radiology practices at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, where the center will be housed.The $38.4 [...]

The Philips Healthcare Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center could bolster Northeast Ohio’s reputation as a hub for innovation in medical imaging technology.The $38.4 million partnership of Philips, University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University — supported by a $5 million Ohio Third Frontier grant — was announced last week. [...]