Health + Wellness
October 27, 2023
Marissa Scavuzzo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has won the 2023 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for research in how glial cells in the intestine’s nervous system operate. Glial cells are considered support cells in the brain and…
October 26, 2023
Study will test effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions in improving sleep health of young adults with type 1 diabetes A researcher from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant for research to improve…
October 25, 2023
Each month, the Center for Research and Scholarship at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sends an internal research newsletter to faculty, staff, students and researchers. A recap is posted here. Message from Ronald Hickman, associate dean for research at Frances Payne Bolton School of…
October 24, 2023
Dear Members of the CWRU Community, Please join me in welcoming Adrianne M. Crawford Fletcher, PhD, to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence. As a vital member of the senior leadership team at the School of Medicine,…
October 20, 2023
Christine Ash, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) alumna and emerita VP, and her husband Timothy have made a $1.25M gift to the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center to establish the Christine and Timothy Ash Fund for Cancer Innovation Research. Ash, who graduated with bachelor's and master's…
October 13, 2023
With a new five-year, $11.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals hope to learn what causes—and how to reduce and treat—esophagus cancers, an increasingly common and deadly disease. Cancer of the esophagus,…
October 10, 2023
The university's medical school becomes the first to use the technology Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the first medical school to use Epic’s new Lyceum platform, which aims to provide first-year medical and nursing students with a quality introduction to using electronic…
October 09, 2023
Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine professors have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s most esteemed societies for health and medicine. NAM membership “recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and…
October 06, 2023
September 30 marks Rare Cancer Day each year. But this year, the end of September was made even more meaningful to Case CCC thanks to a gift from the Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research (JEDI). The $5 million launches CURE: The Rare Cancer Initiative at Case CCC. The gift is in…
October 06, 2023
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and G. Thomas Budd, MD, member of Case CCC's Immune Oncology Program, is getting noticed as the PI for his contribution to the vaccine created to find and attack the protein alpha-lactalbumin, an indicator of triple-negative breast cancer if found in women who are…