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The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded CWRU a $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations.

A CCTRP team has won national recognition for a portable malaria detection device with the potential to transform diagnosis and treatment of the disease in developing countries. The team is one of four recipients of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent for Humanity Award in the category of medicine, and will be honored later this month at a White House ceremony. Earlier this year, this and another CCTRP technology were the basis of a new startup company, Hemex Health.

On October 15^th, Case Western Reserve University’s Society for Biomaterials (SFB) chapter hosted a symposium called SFB Biomaterials Day where students from Case Western as well as many neighboring universities presented their cutting edge research in the field of biomaterials.

What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology, which is in development.