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University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University research teams receive Collaborative Science Pilot Awards
Projects to cover brain tumor, cerebral edema and gastroesophageal cancer research Three University Hospitals (UH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine research teams recently received Collaborative Science Pilot Awards. The teams each received $50,000, funded by both…
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Faculty member Clark Distelhorst passes away
Clark Distelhorst, a long-standing faculty member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away July 3. His wife, Lynne, shared that Distelhorst was…
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Clark Distelhorst Passes Away
Case CCC sadly shares that Clark Distelhorst, MD, an important and long-standing member, has passed away. An early recruit to the new hematology oncology division established by Nathan Berger, MD, at the CWRU School of Medicine, Distelhorst was appointed a member of the emerging cancer center in…
Sudha Chakrapani appointed Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, I am happy to announce that I am appointing Sudha Chakrapani, PhD to the position of chair of the Department of Pharmacology. She has served as the interim chair since November 2022, demonstrating the leadership, vision and commitment needed to lead the department…
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Sossey-Alaoui Receives $2.3M from NIH to Study Breast Cancer and Health Disparities in African-American Women
Khalid Sossey-Alaoui, PhD, member of Case CCC's Molecular Oncology Program, received a five-year, $2.3 million grant to study mechanisms mediating "triple-negative" breast cancer and health disparities in African-American women. Among genetically distinct breast cancers, those classified as…
Coldiron Cohorts: As One Group of Fellows Ends Its Journey, Another Begins
Although their program’s home base is the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive Fellows met thousands of miles away in Palm Springs, California, in January. Launched two years ago, the Coldiron program is designed…
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Case CCC Research Teams Receive Awards
Teams from Case CCC and University Hospitals have received Collaborative Pilot Science Awards to conduct research on brain tumor, cerebral edema, and gastroesophageal cancer. Each team received $50,000 funded by the UH-CWRU Joint Strategic Leadership Committee. According to Daniel Simon, MD,…
Cultivating Community Nurse Leaders
As they waited for their health screenings from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing students in the spring, the Cleveland school children in the queue started to become antsy. So, rising fourth-year nursing student Bernice Eads got creative. “I started playing Simon Says,” she recalled. And…
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Emerging Researchers Program Kicks Off Second Year
The brainchild of John Wang, PhD, Co-Leader of Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, the Emerging Researchers Program welcomed four returning students and two new students this week—all from East Cleveland. With the support of Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, CWRU's Faye…
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A new study published in NEJM Evidence with University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center researchers and ArteraAI validates the first-ever predictive AI biomarker of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) benefit in prostate cancer
University Hospitals Newsroom CLEVELAND – Data from a new study published in NEJM Evidence shows promise for personalized use of short term ADT in men with predominantly intermediate-risk prostate cancer. The study involved ArteraAI, a developer of multimodal artificial intelligence-based…