The chief executive of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio has been appointed to NEOUCOM’s board of trustees.Daisy Alford-Smith becomes the 11th public member of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacies‘ board, according to a statement from the organization. Alford-Smith was appointed by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Her term begins immediately.Other jobs [...]

Akron now has a biomedical district, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. With a few minor changes, city council approved legislation Monday that outlined the district — changing it from concept to reality — and made several zoning changes within the area that encompasses the city’s three downtown hospitals and the University of Akron.

Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state’s leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers of excellence at 14 universities.

Six researchers from the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been awarded over $4 million in federal research grants to investigate chronic diseases that commonly affect veterans.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has made its first round of research and development grants: $680 million to eight projects ranging from a contact lens embedded with a sensor that measures blood glucose levels to a polymer platform for drug-eluting prosthetic devices.

Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University dental researcher Ge Jin has found a protein switch that turns on the spread of cancer — the process that often leads to fatal breast, ovarian, pancreatic and colon-rectal cancers.

NASA’s chief of space medicine visited biomedical engineering students at the University of Akron today, as well as doctors and researchers at Summa Health System in Akron, the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron to find disruptive medical innovations that can help take care of astronauts.

On Wednesday, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) named longtime University of Colorado Denver executive and professor Jay A. Gershen as its sixth president. Gershen succeeds Dr. Lois Nora, who has been both president and medical dean for seven years, on Jan. 15.

Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) has named Jay A. Gershen, vice chancellor of external affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, as its sixth president. Dr. Gershen will succeed Dr. Lois Nora on Jan. 15, 2010.

The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) will used a $5 million grant to establish a research center focusing on the best approaches for schizophrenia treatment.