The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students.The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows another $1 million gift from the foundation in 2007 for the same program, the Plain Dealer reported. The money will go [...]

Case Western Reserve University has received $11.3 million in federal funding to establish a gastrointestinal cancer research center.The sheer size of the grant from the National Cancer Institute, and the company it puts Case in, make the grant a big deal for the university. Just six other institutions, including Johns Hopkins University and Harvard, [...]

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A Case Western Reserve University spinoff is planning to commercialize its high-resolution imaging technology that allows preclinical researchers to see the exact location of single cells and displays the information in a 3-D reconstruction of a mouse.Mayfield Village, Ohio-based BioInVision is kicking off the formal marketing launch of its “cryo-imaging” service at the World Molecular [...]

Biomarker company NeoProteomics, a spinoff from Case Western Reserve University, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.NeoProteomics will use the funding to further refine its bioinformatics software, which is used by clients in the research industry to develop and discover new biomarkers for disease, according to a statement from Case. Biomarkers [...]

New research from Case Western Reserve University and two other schools has concluded that problems associated with comparison shopping for health insurance result in small businesses overpaying insurance premiums by an estimated 29 percent.The paper suggests that a major component of last year’s controversial federal health overhaul, insurance exchanges, could help consumers extract better value [...]

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $1.6 million federal grant for research into how tumor cells avoid detection by the body’s immune system.The five-year grant comes from the National Cancer Institute and will help Case researchers examine “immune tolerance,” a process that keeps tumor cells from being detected by the immune [...]

A bioinformatics spinoff company from Case Western Reserve University has reached an exclusive option agreement to license technology from the university.The company, NeoProteomics, was co-founded by Mark Chance, director of Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics. NeoProteomics focuses on the identification and validation of biomarkers, proteins in the blood that can indicate the presence of [...]

Case Western Reserve University’s top technology transfer official is resigning from the university to start a new technology transfer and venture development consulting firm. Mark Coticchia’s resignation is effective April 1. He joined Case in 2001.

Medical imaging technology company Bioptigen, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has received a warning that its hand-held imaging device for the eye is being marketed beyond the scope of its 510(k) clearance.