A multidisciplinary research team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a three-year, $936,000 grant to use collaborative computational modeling approaches to promote better community health through more equitable food systems.

Under the Tipping Points grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a team led by Darcy Freedman, PhD, associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center member, will conduct the Modeling the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood study that will examine several key food-system strategies. These include efforts such as supermarket expansion, healthy-eating social marketing campaigns, and emergency food assistance programs. The goal is to develop strategies to sequence, integrate and tailor these efforts to achieve maximum community benefit. more>

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During his two-decade career as a neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Vogelbaum, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, has seen little progress in the treatment of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that is difficult to treat or cure.  The problem is the  blood-brain barrier , which is composed of specialized cells inside the brain's capillary walls. The blood-brain barrier is nature's way of protecting the brain from naturally occurring toxins, but it also keeps most traditional chemotherapies from reaching tumors.

Vogelbaum, based at the Cleveland Clinic, dreamed of a device that could deliver chemotherapy directly into brain tissues, thus circumventing the blood-brain barrier. Research in the 1990s suggested that liquids pushed slowly and directly into the brain would suffuse throughout the tissue without increasing cranial pressure.

Deadline: Sep 21, 2018

The Pilot Awards for Community Engaged Approaches to Understand and/or Reduce Health Disparities aim to develop investigators with a capacity to engage in partnerships with communities to conduct high-quality health disparities research. Investigations of interest include the development, pilot testing, and/or dissemination of community-based studies to understand and/or eliminate health disparities.

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) announces a Request for Proposals (RFP) soliciting high-impact pre-clinical, translational, and early clinical research from scientists and clinicians around the world. The RFP calls for ideas that have the potential to lead to near-term clinical application in melanoma prevention, detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment.

Proposals will be accepted for Established Investigator Awards, Pilot Awards, and Young Investigator Awards. Please note that the following Special Opportunities are available: