Lou Ruvo Center
Science
Ruvo Center Takes Nothing for Granted
February 7th, 2013
The 3-year-old Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is again proving that a stand-alone nonprofit science outfit can thrive in Las Vegas. The center is part of a consortium that recently landed a major research award from the National Institutes of Health. Read more »
Ruvo Conference Rounds up Big Brains in Concussion Studies
October 1st, 2012
Quick: What topic could get guys from the Nevada Athletic Commission, representatives of college football and the U.S. Surgeon General together in a room with a bunch of neurologists? Read more »
Battling for the Brain
At the Ruvo Center, scientists are leveraging Las Vegas’ fight-capital status for a groundbreaking study
May 31st, 2012
By day, 25-year-old Nils Widlund is a presumably mild-mannered employee in the corporate sales support division of Nordea Bank in Stockholm. He crunches numbers on a computer, moves money around and wears nice clothes to work. Nights, weekends and on extended leave, he’s “Honeybadger” Widlund, the professional kickboxer who, just like the ferocious carnivore made infamous by the viral video, is “pretty badass and runs all over the place.” Read more »
Of Many Minds
In the battle against Parkinson’s disease, the Ruvo Center’s Ryan Walsh gives science a human touch
February 9th, 2012
It’s August 2011, and a stylish, dark-haired 81-year-old named Rhoda Starker waits in an exam room at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health to see the newest doctor in the building. Read more »
Art
The Picture of Health
With the new Rosenquist painting, the Lou Ruvo Center is the closest thing Las Vegas has to an art museum
December 16th, 2010
Combine the forces of two of Las Vegas’ aesthetic titans, and you’d naturally expect to see bombastic results. That’s exactly what happened when Steve Wynn, megaresort cultivator and high-stakes art investor, convinced the chairman of Keep Memory Alive organization, Larry Ruvo, that downtown’s Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health designed by Frank Gehry needed just one final adornment. The clinic already has more than 4,000 pieces in its art collection, 40 of which are in Las Vegas. So it had to be something monumental. Something important. Read more »
Society
A Brainy Gathering
December 2nd, 2010
Champagne flowed at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health when pop artist James Rosenquist’s Cervello Spazio Cosmico was unveiled on Nov. 20. Translated as “brain space,” the soaring piece was commissioned by casino mogul Steve Wynn and will be on permanent display at the Keep Memory Alive Events Center. Larry Ruvo, chairman and founder of Keep Memory Alive, the fundraising arm of the Center, invited 100 of his most significant donors to the unveiling and the dinner that followed. Read more »
Society
Good Memories
September 23rd, 2010
Keep Memory Alive and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health are committed to prolonging healthy, vital aging in people at risk for dementia or memory impairments. Supporting this mission, Anna Zegna of the Italian fashion family and director of the Zegna Foundation, celebrated Ermenegildo Zegna’s 100th anniversary, and the store opening at Crystals in CityCenter, with a fundraiser Sept. 16. Guests sipped Champagne and Bellinis, and enjoyed food from Spago. Read more »
Society
Open Minds
May 27th, 2010
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health on May 22 opened its doors to the Las Vegas elite during its grand opening celebration. Read more »
Our Delicate New Icon
The Ruvo building smartly and gently fits into the fold downtown
April 15th, 2010
When Larry Ruvo was ready to bring his Alzheimer’s research center to life, he was upfront about his ambitions. He wanted a name architect to design his building—because that would attract attention, interest, support and money. Ruvo got what he wanted—Frank Gehry, the most famous living architect in the world. Now Las Vegas will see if it gets what it wanted—an iconic piece of architecture—when the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health fully opens in May. Read more »
