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“Development of Innovative Curriculum on Climate Change for First-Year Medical Students”
The Swetland Center for Environmental Health will host its February seminar, titled “Development of Innovative Curriculum on Climate Change for First-Year Medical Students,” Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 9 to 10 a.m. Numerous medical and health associations, governmental and non-governmental agencies…
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“Disrupting the Culture of Violence: How to be a Prosocial Bystander”
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women for an introductory intervention workshop as part of the It's On CWRU violence prevention and response initiative, offered the third Tuesday of each month throughout the spring…
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STEM Faculty Recruitment and Retention Journal Club meeting
Members of the CWRU community, particularly faculty in STEM-related fields, are invited to participate in the fifth meeting of the STEM Faculty Recruitment and Retention Journal Club Feb. 18 at noon. This month, the club will discuss “Nudging Toward Diversity: Applying Behavioral Design to Faculty…
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“Touching History: An Evening with Civil Rights Lecturer Clarence Bozeman”
The African American Alumni Association invites members of the community to a special conversation with Civil Rights Lecturer and Cleveland native Clarence Bozeman. During his college days at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Bozeman became the first full-time transportation employee for…
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Study Shows Machine Learning’s Potential to Predict Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Risk
From Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: Machine learning-based approaches to risk assessment can be highly effective in predicting various types of cardiac dysfunction among cancer survivors who have received cardiotoxic cancer therapies, according to a new retrospective longitudinal study…
Student Spotlight – Bre'Andria Thompson
Working in health care is all in the family for Bre’Andria Thompson, a student in the second year of the Physician Assistant (PA) program at the School of Medicine. The oldest of eight children born and raised in Alabama, Bre’ is also the oldest of triplet girls—and all three are pursuing careers…
Associate Directors' Message: Creating solutions to address cancer disparities
Dear Members of the Cancer Center community, Next month, on March 4-5, we are hosting the 5th Annual Cancer Disparities Symposium, themed as “Navigating Cancer Disparities: Lessons Learned and How to Move Forward.” This symposium has attracted a diverse audience as we will not only be joined by…
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Chakraborty awarded 2020 V Scholar Grant
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Cleveland Clinic's Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD as he was awarded a 2020 V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research for his proposal, "Chromatin Dysfunction Identifies Metabolic Regulators as Potential Therapeutic Targets…
Colorectal cancer research funded by the National Cancer Institute investigates new potential immunotherapy targets
A team of researchers from CWRU and UH is investigating the role of Erbb3 in the development of colorectal cancer. To put it simply, says lead investigator Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, the team is attempting to discover the pathways that can switch the cold tumors to hot tumors, and activate immune…
Short. Sweet. Film Fest. to feature online, on-demand and in-person options Feb. 24–26
The 10th Annual Short. Sweet. Film Fest. will be hosting both an online, On Demand and in person festival February 24th-28th. Our On Demand festival is completely FREE to anyone thanks to our generous sponsor, Launchpad Productions. Film lovers can go to www.shortsweetfilmfest.com and register for…