Health + Wellness

In recognition of Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day, March 13, and National Nutrition Month, The Daily is highlighting the important role these professionals play as key members of interdisciplinary healthcare teams. Hope Barkoukis Registered dietitian nutritionists are often viewed…

Tae Hun Kim, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, has been named the recipient of the prestigious Mallinckrodt grant for his research proposal—“Understanding the Recognition and Repair of DNA Single-Strand Breaks in the Nucleosome.” This annual award, sponsored by the…

Presentations, collegial debates, networking, and a spirit of collaboration were the themes throughout the evening at the 2024 Cleveland Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology Consortium Meeting planned jointly by cancer experts from University Hospitals (UH) and Cleveland Clinic (CCF) with support from…

Oral cancers and precancerous mouth lesions are considered especially difficult to diagnose early and accurately. For one, biopsies are expensive, invasive, stressful for the patient and can lead to complications. They’re also not feasible if repeated screenings of the same lesion are…

Co-leaders of Case CCC's Cancer Imaging Program, Agata Exner, PhD (PI) and James Basilion, PhD (MPI) received a four-year, $2.4M NIH grant to continue the development, implementation, and clinical translation of the first prostate cancer cell-targeted ultrasound contrast agent. The research team…

Bubbling Up In Agata Exner’s lab, researchers spend a lot of time blowing bubbles. These, though, are nanobubbles—nanoparticles with gas at their core—each of which is about 2,000 times smaller than a single grain of salt. By stimulating the nanobubbles with sound waves, Exner’s team is working…

The School of Medicine welcomed the following new employees in January 2024 to the School of Medicine : Name  Department  Role Jeri Jewett-Tennant Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative Research Associate Amy…

Vice Chair Julie Gerberding (WRC '77, MED '81), first woman director of the CDC, to become chair in June 2025 At its most recent meeting, Case Western Reserve University’s Board of Trustees elected a longtime member and history-making leader as its next chair. Julie Gerberding, MD (WRC ’77, MED…

Teaching healthy habits In today’s fast-paced world, convenience often takes precedence over nutrition when it comes to whipping up a meal. The new state-of-the-art teaching kitchen at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine aims to change that. Across the 2,300-square-foot…

 Understanding and treating deadly esophageal cancers Cancer of the esophagus, especially esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), is highly lethal, with 80% of patients dying within five years of diagnosis, according to Kishore Guda, DVM, PhD, an associate professor at the School of Medicine. Patients…