Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Week in Review (For the week ending Jan. 29, 2021)
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OHIO – Throughout the week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted provided updates on Ohio s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other state initiatives
On Monday, Governor DeWine issued the following statement regarding the news that United States Senator Rob Portman would not seek re-election:
“Senator Portman has worked tirelessly on behalf of Ohioans during his two terms in the United States Senate. Senator Portman has been a key partner on helping Ohio with federal COVID-19 relief and other pandemic-related issues. Senator Portman and I have had similar policy priorities to help Ohio families, from tackling the Opioid crisis and the scourge of human trafficking to protecting Lake Erie and Ohio’s other natural wonders. Fran and I wish Rob and Jane and their family the best in their future endeavors.”
Health, education institutions unite with big money, lofty goals for Cleveland Innovation District
Cleveland Clinic
A new Cleveland Clinic center focused on understanding and combatting emerging pathogens will serve as an anchor for an emerging innovation district on the city s East Side.
Challenging a long history of rather sporadic collaboration efforts, three health systems and two universities have forged a $565 million partnership to spark innovation and economic growth.
Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, MetroHealth, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University are working together to form an innovation hub with ambitious plans to create more than 20,000 jobs in the next decade, accelerate discoveries, grow research spending, build and attract businesses, and more.
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CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have described for the first time how Zika virus (ZIKV) causes one of the most common birth defects associated with prenatal infection, called brain calcification, according to new study findings published in
Nature Microbiology.
The findings may reveal novel strategies to prevent prenatal ZIKV brain calcification and offer important insights into how calcifications form in other congenital infections. Brain calcification has been linked to several developmental defects in infants, including motor disorders, cognitive disability, eye abnormalities, hearing deficits and seizures, so it s important to better understand the mechanisms of how they develop, said Jae Jung, PhD, director of Cleveland Clinic s Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health and lead author on the study. Dr. Jung, who is also chair of the Department of Cancer Biology, joined Cleveland Clinic from the University of Southern California
Cause Of Common Zika Virus Birth Defect Revealed by Colleen Fleiss on January 28, 2021 at 10:32 PM
A new study has identified how Zika virus (ZIKV) causes one of the most common birth defects linked to prenatal infection, called brain calcification, according to new study findings published in Nature Microbiology. Brain calcification has been linked to several developmental defects in infants, including motor disorders, cognitive disability, eye abnormalities, hearing deficits and seizures, so it s important to better understand the mechanisms of how they develop, said Jae Jung, PhD, director of Cleveland Clinic s Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health and lead author on the study. Dr. Jung, who is also chair of the Department of Cancer Biology, joined Cleveland Clinic from the University of Southern California in July.
Ohio Investing In Cleveland Innovation District Patch 1/26/2021
CLEVELAND Ohio officials unveiled plans for the Cleveland Innovation District this week.
“The Cleveland Innovation District creates partnerships across different sectors of the economy and positions Ohio as a competitive place to invest in,” said Gov. Mike DeWine.
The project would bring together Northeast Ohio s health care providers and education institutions to create a pathogen research center. DeWine said the program could create 20,000 Ohio jobs over a decade, including 10,000 direct jobs in the health care and IT sectors and 10,000 indirect jobs. DeWine s office estimates the economic impact for Cleveland and Ohio will be $3 billion.