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2027 Scholar-Innovator and ADDF-Harrington
April 21, 2026
Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals is now accepting full applications for the 2027 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award for physician-scientists. The award offers successful applicants multiple opportunities for funding in addition to expertise from pharma-experienced leaders with a track record of bringing...
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April 16, 2020
2020 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine Recognizes Contributions to Red Blood Cell Biology Continue Reading
April 07, 2020
April 7, 2020, CLEVELAND, Ohio USA - The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, today issued a transatlantic call for proposals for new treatments, pursuant to its to support the global fight against novel Coronavirus and potential future pandemic events. Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI)... Continue Reading
April 02, 2020
April 2, 2020, CLEVELAND, Ohio USA –The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, announced today a new initiative that galvanizes its transatlantic network of academic institutions, foundations, and philanthropic partners to accelerate promising, near-term therapies to treat COVID-19 and its... Continue Reading
March 04, 2020
March 4, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio – Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announce a joint request for proposals for the . The ADDF-Harrington Scholar Award is designed to accelerate the translation of innovative research that could treat, prevent, or slow... Continue Reading
February 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