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 ReadingDecember 14, 2016
Cleveland, Ohio – 2016 Harrington Fellows have been selected by Harrington Discovery Institute. The new Harrington Fellows Award recognizes promising early- to mid-career physician-scientists in the greater Cleveland medical community and provides $75,000 per year for two years to support their research efforts.Harrington... Continue Reading
October 17, 2016
Cleveland, Ohio – Mukesh K. Jain, MD, University Hospitals Chief Scientific Officer, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, joining a distinguished organization that has made important contributions to health, medicine and science. This honor underscores Dr. Jain’s role in helping shape research and health... Continue Reading
September 13, 2016
The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education, the announced on Tuesday.The awards, honoring basic medical research, clinical research and special achievement... Continue Reading
August 15, 2016
Cleveland – The Trustees of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation in Hudson Ohio have awarded a grant of $200,000 to the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio to support the Institute’s Innovation Support Center (ISC) and its mission of mentoring physician-scientists to advance novel... Continue Reading
June 13, 2016
LONDON AND CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 13, 2016: Arix Bioscience Limited (Arix Bioscience), a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, announced today it has provided development capital to OptiKira, LLC (OptiKira), an early stage company developing drugs to help prevent blindness.Extensive research... Continue Reading
June 06, 2016
When the Lauder family founded the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) in 1998, they knew that proprietary boundaries would only limit efforts to develop effective Alzheimer’s drugs. So they resolved to make the ADDF’s knowledge available to everyone working to overcome this devastating disease—and all the... Continue Reading
May 05, 2016
For the past decade, venture philanthropists have been working to propel promising therapies and vaccines into the clinic, with some success.Venture philanthropist Bill Gates looks on as a health worker vaccinates a child in GhanaIn December 2015, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan made a stunning... Continue Reading
May 02, 2016
CLEVELAND AND INDIANAPOLIS – May 2, 2016 – BioMotiv, a drug development accelerator associated with the Harrington Project, and Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. announce the formation of a new biotechnology start-up, Allinaire Therapeutics. Allinaire Therapeutics aims to develop novel therapeutics for... Continue Reading
May 01, 2016
- 2016 Gund-Harrington Scholar Continue Reading
May 01, 2016
- 2016 Oxford-Harrington Scholar Continue Reading