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With $3.5M National Institutes of Health grant, research teams from Case Western Reserve University / University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Hospital hope to find out  Throughout our lives, changes in our DNA, called genetic mutations, occur in every healthy cell of the human body—mutations…

Leadership Appointment: Office of Medical Education  The Office of Medical Education is pleased to announce that Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, MD, has been appointed as the inaugural Associate Dean of Program Innovation and Educational Enhancements. As one of four associate deans reporting to the vice dean for medical education, Dr. Rowland-Seymour…

Each December, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine students swap their white coats and scrubs for costumes and dance shoes to bring Doc Opera, a variety show that allows medical students to flex their creative muscles, to life. 

Paul Tesar (CWR '03), PhD, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics, was awarded the school's highest honor—the Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation—during the School of Medicine State of the School presentation on Dec. 6. 

"Eliminate the difference in healthcare between the poor and the rich" was Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine emeritus professor Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD (MED, 66) response to the medical school application question on why he wanted to pursue a medical career. In the ensuing five decades, Jackson (CLC ’62, MED ’66) became a…

Leadership Appointments: Office of Medical Education  The Office of Medical Education welcomes Rosa Hand, PhD, as its new Director of Research and Scholarship.

Tae Hun Kim, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, is the recipient of the prestigious Mallinckrodt Foundation Award for his research proposal—“Understanding the Recognition and Repair of DNA Single-Strand Breaks in the Nucleosome.” This annual grant, sponsored by the Mallinckrodt Foundation, supports early-career scientists…

Stan Gerson, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, presented the 2023 State of the School of Medicine on Dec. 6.

Four employees were honored with Staff Awards for 2023: Alberto Santana, Malana Bey, Jason Buitrago and Maria Rizk at the Staff Town Hall in November. These awards, the highest the school can award staff members, celebrate those who not only consistently contribute to the school in an outstanding manner but who show exemplary attitude and support…

Case Western Reserve University postdoctoral fellow Oladayo Oyebanji has earned the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s Yoshikawa and High award for an abstract he presented at the society’s IDWeek in October. The award honors work that focuses on solving healthcare epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship and infectious disease issues in…

Pinunta (Petch) Nittayacharn first arrived at Case Western Reserve University in 2016 to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering with support from the Royal Thai Government Scholarship under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Upon graduating in 2022, she remained at the university and is now in her second year as a postdoctoral scholar in the …

With a $3.99 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, biomedical engineers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago will begin testing an implantable device that restores the sense of touch to breast cancer patients after reconstructive surgery.

Dana Crawford, professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was named a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics, a college of elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics. 

Funding will advance novel approaches to treating cancer and diabetes-related blindness   A combined $1.35 million from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust was awarded to two researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to advance their work on finding more effective treatments—and better options—for…

Amit Gupta, associate professor of radiology at Case Western Reserve University and division chief of cardiothoracic imaging at University Hospitals, was nominated and selected to join the Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI²) Class of 2023 of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.