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Related Centers and Partners National Center for Regenerative Medicine The National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) acts as an umbrella organization for the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) and Clinical Tissue Engineering Center (CTEC). The NCRM is comprised of three principal non-profit institutions: Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), and Cleveland Clinic (CC), which have contiguous campuses. The broad-based excellence of its partner institutions provides the NCRM a comprehensive approach including basic and clinical research, biomedical and tissue engineering, and the development and administration of the new therapies to patients with cancer, heart, blood, bone, and nervous system disease. The center seeks to provide training and to translate innovative laboratory research into clinical applications to replace and repair diseased tissues and organs. The partner institutions and the State of Ohio are contributing more than $100 million and were pleased to receive a $4.5 million federal appropriation in fiscal year 2005 to support the NCRM. Clinical Tissue Engineering Center CTEC was created in 2005 through $4 million award from the State of Ohio as a Wright Center of Innovation. CTEC is a multi-disciplinary center devoted to developing new drugs, devices, and therapeutic strategies in tissue engineering and is comprised of 60 clinicians from CC, Case, UHC, NASA Glenn Research Center, and Ohio Supercomputer. Basic research in new materials and scaffolds, new cell sources, processing methods, new measurement tools and new means of intervention are paired with innovative clinicians who are inspired by the needs and opportunities for the treatment of diseases of the cartilage, bones, muscles and connective tissue. A consortium comprising Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Cincinnati and several medical device firms received $22.8 million from the state of Ohio today to establish an Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center at the Clinic. The new Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center will be one of the state's Wright Centers of Innovation, which consist of large-scale, world-class research and technology development platforms designed to accelerate the pace of Ohio commercialization. BioEnterprise is a business formation, recruitment, and acceleration initiative designed to grow health care companies and commercialize bioscience technologies. Based in Cleveland, BioEnterprise's founders and partners are Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, and Summa Health System. The initiative comprises the collective activities of BioEnterprise and its partners' commercialization offices: the Case Research Institute Office of Technology Transfer, Cleveland Clinic Innovations, and Summa Enterprise Group. Biomedical Engineering Department at Case: The Department's mission is to promote human health through education and research that bridges the gap between medicine and engineering. Their faculty and students play leading roles ranging from basic science discovery to the creation, clinical evolution, and commercialization of new technologies, devices and therapies.
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center: The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is a multi-disciplinary cancer research center, based in the Division of General Medical Sciences of the Case School of Medicine, with faculty membership of over 280 located in twenty-seven departments distributed across six Schools and Colleges at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The Center combines the resources and expertise at CWRU and its partnering affiliated hospitals: University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and MetroHealth Medical Center. It is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of only 39 in the United States, and is directed by Stanton L. Gerson, M.D. In 2004, $114 million in funding to the Center and its membership, largely from the National Institutes of Health, supported the cancer research program. Center for Clinical Research at the University Hospitals of Cleveland: As the research arm of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, the Center for Clinical Research focuses on translational research, taking fundamental advances in biomedical research and applying them to improvements in healthcare. This is achieved through a balanced approach involving federal-funded research, sponsored research agreements with the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, and a century-long partnership with Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center: The Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center (C5) is an Academic Research Organization (ARO) within the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic (CC). The mission of C5 is to improve the care of cardiovascular patients by providing academic services to support the development, implementation, and successful conclusion of cardiovascular clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, the NIH, CC or other academic organizations. Cleveland Clinic Orthopedic Research Center: The Cleveland Clinic established its Orthopaedic Research Center in 2001, consolidating and fortifying the efforts of diverse researchers. The Center's mission is "to advance the health and treatment of people with disorders of the musculoskeletal system through basic and applied scientific investigation, and to train future leaders in musculoskeletal care, research and education." Functional Electronic Stimulation Center: The Cleveland FES Center is a consortium of three nationally recognized institutions: Department of Veteran Affairs, MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University. Through the support of these partners, the Cleveland FES Center is able to provide a continuum of advancement. The Cleveland FES Center strives to create a fertile environment in which researchers, engineers and clinicians work in collaboration to develop technological solutions that improve the quality of life of individuals with neruological or muscular skeletal impairments the through the use of functional electrical stimulation and enables the transfer of this technology into clinical deployment. The Lerner Research Institute is home to all laboratory-based research at Cleveland Clinic. Our mission is to understand the underlying causes of human diseases and to develop new treatments and cures. The Institute is an integrated research community consisting of nine Departments (Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics & Virology, Neurosciences, Pathobiology) and 11 Centers of Research. Investigators work in basic, translational and clinical research. With total annual research expenditures exceeding $150 million from Federal agencies, non-Federal societies and associations and endowment funds, the Institute is the fifth largest in the country.
The Skeletal Research Center provides an organizational umbrella for the creative and innovative interactions of faculty. Although members of our faculty have long been recognized as leaders in this area of research, the center was established in 1986 to draw together these individuals to provide a unique, multi-disciplinary group which could jointly approach current basic research and clinical problems. This center holds the promise of making scientific breakthroughs in the molecular and cell biology, physiology, and clinical treatments and regeneration of cartilage, bone and other skeletal tissues. The mission of the Skeletal Research Center is to facilitate the advancement of the basic research of skeletal tissues and to accelerate the translation of this new information into innovative clinical strategies for the regeneration and maintenance of skeletal tissues. Small Animal Imaging Research: The Imaging Research Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) provides state of the art imaging research capabilities to faculty and employees of CWRU, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center, and other academic and industrial institutions. The imaging center is commited to providing an efficient and cost-effective opportunity for collaborations for both clinical and preclinical research. Imaging Modalities include:
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