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The Hartwell Foundation presented a 2014 Biomedical Research Collaboration Award to Jonathan Sears, MD, of Case Western Reserve University, and Randi Silver, PhD, of Cornell University, for their research to overcome blindness and chronic lung disease in very early pre-term infants. Sears, an assoc...

Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Khalid “Cal” Al-Dhubaib will compete this spring for the title of 2015 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year for founding a company to help doctors care for patients with chronic illnesses. The winner of the competition in Washington, D.C., Ap...

$1.6 million dental study aims to correct parent/caregiver misperceptions to improve dental attention to children’s teeth Dental researchers hope to vastly improve oral health in children by countering a common misperception that dental care for baby teeth isn’t important because they just fall out ...

Staff Advisory Council (SAC) Chair Barb Juknialis has added another accomplishment to her list: She is one of 10 individuals across Northeast Ohio recently named a “Hero Behind the Scenes” in the inaugural year of the recognition program. As part of the honor, Juknialis, the administrative director ...

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that University General Counsel Elizabeth “Libby” Keefer will assume the additional position of Senior Vice President for Administration, effective Jan. 20. Keefer succeeds John Wheeler, who announced his retirement Dec. 15. “John brought such enormous in...

Case Western Reserve University honors Martin Luther King Jr.—the holiday, the man and the legacy—with weeklong (Jan. 16-23) activities, including workshops, panel discussions and acclaimed speakers. The celebration concludes with a keynote address by award-winning journalist and civil rights autho...

Earlier this month, a pair of Case Western Reserve University engineering students field tested their foot-powered cell phone charger in rural villages of the Kingdom of Lesotho, a small country surrounded entirely by South Africa. “A lot of people have cell phones but no way to charge them,” said ...

An evaluation by social work researchers at Case Western Reserve University of Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative in 11 counties found the program benefits most young offenders diverted from detention centers to community-based agencies to treat mental health issues, drug pr...

Discovery paves way for new approaches for population with highest incidence and mortality rates from this kind of cancer Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African-Americans—the population with the highest incidence and death r...

Dental and medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University found another reason to treat periodontal disease as soon as possible. They discovered that byproducts of bacteria in gum disease, called metabolic small chain fatty acid (SCFA), can work together to wake up HIV in dormant T-cells ...