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Cleveland Clinic cites 'Top Ten' medical innovations for 2008
The Cleveland Clinic unveiled the 3rd annual version of its wildly popular Top Ten list of medical innovations on the last day of its Medical Innovations Summit Wednesday.
Fisher announces nearly $23 million for biomedical projects
Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher, Chair of the Ohio Third Frontier Commission, today announced that the Commission recommended nearly $23 million in funding through the Ohio Biomedical
Research Commercialization Program for six Ohio projects that target research and development in areas including improved prosthetic limbs, better treatment of asthma and cystic fibrosis, and expanded programs
for burn care and nerve repair.
Cleveland Clinic, Case and University Hospitals Partner in a New Department of Defense Award
The United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health, have awarded at least $42.5 million to premier institutions across the
country to create the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM).
Arteriocyte wins $509,000 grant
Cleveland biotech company Arteriocyte has received a $509,000 grant from the Cleveland Clinic's Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center to further the development of its stem cell technology for use in chronic coronary ischemia.
Cleveland Clinic, Case research on macular degeneration gives hope
With the help of laboratory mice, a team of eye researchers from the Cleveland Clinic has triggered the pivotal moments that jump-start a common form of blindness in the elderly.
If you're a diabetic, imagine your daily blood-sugar results being sent electronically to your doctor.
If you have asthma, imagine an inhaler that sends 80 percent of the medicine to your lungs instead of the 5 percent that gets there now.
Hope for Alzheimer's? Deep Brain Stimulation
Researchers report what they say is a world first: By implanting a device in a man's brain, they have improved his memory.
Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center grants $6.5 million for heart-related projects
The only so-called "mega-center of innovation" funded by Ohio's Third Frontier Project won't break ground until spring, but it already has agreed to grant $6,5 million to biomedical companies and projects that are developing hear-related innovations.
Israel has become a remarkable innovative place.
"What Israel lacks is a market to expand. We are here to attract and help Israeli companies to set up partnerships or operations in the State of Ohio as a base for expanding their markets to North America."
Third Frontier awards grants to Northeast Ohio engineering, biomedical projects
The Third Frontier Commission awarded $66.8 million in grants Thursday -- the bulk of which involve Northeast Ohio -- to bolster engineering and biomedical projects throughout the state.
Tolera Therapeutics raises over $8 million
A Cleveland Clinic spinoff that is developing safer immuno-suppressing therapies for transplant patients has raised more than $8 million in its first investment round.
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