September 14, 2023
New gene therapy company created and funded by Oxford Science Enterprises, Harrington Discovery Institute and Old College Capital in partnership with six leading scientists from the world-renowned UK Respiratory Gene Therapy Consortium (GTC) AlveoGene initially aims to leverage proprietary lentiviral gene therapy platform...
Continue ReadingFebruary 28, 2020
February 28, 2020, CLEVELAND, Ohio USA – The 2021 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award is now open and accepting Letters of Intent. The award offers inventive physician-scientists resources and expertise to advance their discoveries into medicines. Intellectual property rights are retained by the award recipient or his or her... Continue Reading
February 27, 2020
CLEVELAND — February 27, 2020—Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have used a unique method to safely deliver gene therapy to fight a rare, but irreversible, genetic eye disorder known as .By using chemically modified lipids - instead of the viruses most commonly used as carriers - Stargardt disease did not... Continue Reading
January 27, 2020
January 27, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio – The Harrington Discovery Institute® at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, and its registered UK charity (Fund for Cures UK) have issued a call for proposals for the 2020 Harrington UK Rare Disease Scholar Award, a new program to advance promising research into novel treatments for... Continue Reading
December 19, 2019
December 19, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio – The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, today announced the 2020 class of Harrington Scholar-Innovators, which includes the Institute’s first Canadian Scholar. The grants will support a range of drug discovery projects including novel therapies for... Continue Reading
October 07, 2019
has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to , Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy. The fundamental importance of oxygen has been... Continue Reading
September 17, 2019
Grant award provides new discovery pathway for MSTP students to translate promising scientific discoveries into medicines.Cleveland, Ohio, USA – September 17, 2019 – Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine today announced a new program to help the next... Continue Reading
June 04, 2019
Key PointsTek Image / Science Photo Library / Getty ImagesMorgan Stanley is starting a new program that will let clients donate money to find treatments and cures for diseases.The program, called Morgan Stanley GIFT Cures, began today in tandem with a two-day conference the financial services firm is hosting.All donations made... Continue Reading
June 04, 2019
On June 4, 2019 Morgan Stanley announced an exciting new collaboration with Harrington Discovery Institute at The Exchange 2019, a two-day event in New York City presented by The Social Impact Exchange and Morgan Stanley. Through a new partnership with Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (GIFT), Harrington Discovery... Continue Reading
June 04, 2019
Morgan Stanley GIFT Cures is the first special interest initiative of the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust.Morgan Stanley announced the launch of Morgan Stanley GIFT Cures, in partnership with the Harrington Discovery Institute, on Tuesday at its annual The Exchange conference. This is the first special interest... Continue Reading