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I recently had the dubious distinction to participate in and serve on an National Institutes of Health grant review called and NIH study section. I’ve done this before and have reviewed lots of grants over the years, but there have been a lot of changes recently and it is a whole [...]

About a dozen Ohio health causes — including a pioneer of pediatric medical devices in Cleveland, a summer program for high-risk teens in Columbus and a group that encourages breastfeeding in Barberton — think they have great ideas, so they’ve applied for grants from an unlikely source. Pepsi.PepsiCo Inc. is “giving away millions [...]

The federal government is spending a lot of time and effort on a federal bailout or stimulus package. Some of this stimulus package money is going to medical research. Over $10 billion is allotted to the National Institutes of Health to fund medical research projects. This money is grant funding that is being done by [...]

Philips Healthcare is investing more than $33 million in the first phase of a medical imaging research and development center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.The investment by the Dutch imaging technology company — which could double if a second phase follows — was announced at an afternoon press conference along with the [...]

Two Northeast Ohio start-ups that are developing treatments for psoriasis and for people who have trouble swallowing are getting $25,000 grants from the Innovation Fund of the Lorain County Community College Foundation.Fluence Therapeutics Inc. in Akron, which has licensed photodynamic therapy technology from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is developing both a [...]

I went to college for nine years to obtain a bachelors, masters and Ph.D. I am very proud of those accomplishments and completely embrace the moniker geek. I love doing cutting edge research and teaching the next generation of ’geeks.’The problem is that with my education I did not learn how to market or promote [...]

The University of Cincinnati will use a $3.6 million grant, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, to research how thinking about physical acts can help stroke patients. A $1.57 million grant will fund ongoing research at Case Western Reserve University to develop a treatment for the eye infection bacterial keratitis.

House Bill 283, proposed late last week by State Rep. Sandra Williams, would be provided by the Ohio Department of Development and is for workers who are not already in the biotech sector.

The National Institutes of Health will provide $4.9 million so Case researchers can try to identify patients’ inborn genetic susceptibility to develop colon cancer from some other cancer, $1.5 million to the Cleveland Clinic to research deep brain stimulation, and $1.9 million to the Clinic to research whether viruses could be the cause of certain types of bone marrow cancers and other blood disorders.

The grants, worth a total of $500,000, are awarded to Dr. William Fissell and Dr. Andrew Stephenson.