Health + Wellness

Agata Exner, PhD, co-leader of Case CCC's Cancer Imaging Program and Associate Director of CWRU SOM's Medical Scientist Training Program, was featured in Newswise on April 11 with postdoc Pinunta "Petch" Nittayacharn for their work using tiny bubbles to make mRNA more effective. Nittayacharn recent...

Second-year postdoctoral scholar Christian Mouchati, MD, presented an abstract poster at the Conferences of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in February. “The work highlights the increase in inflammatory markers and gut integrity in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC),” said Mouchati...

With Moderna Inc. global fellowship award, CWRU School of Medicine researchers hope to develop process that overcomes challenge of targeting diseased cells Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—r...

Potter Will Be Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s First Black Female Neurosurgery Resident This article is a part of our CTSC Special Feature series. According to the National Institutes of Health, less than 4% of all neurosurgeons in the United States are Black or African American. When acc...

Move over, Big Apple! While Cleveland might not have Times Square, it isn't lacking in the welcome department. Electronic billboards at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport greeted Gary Schwartz, MD, even before his official first day as Case CCC director. Schwartz, who hails from New York and m...

Dr. Eric Chen and Chesley Cheatham Champion Resources for Patients This article is a part of our CTSC Barrier Busters series. The Government Accountability Office conducted a study, as prompted by the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act, to explore barriers to clinical trial participat...

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is proud to announce the 2023 QS Top Universities ranking. Case Western Reserve University was ranked 41st in the world on the 2023 rankings for the nursing category. This rank was a tie with Trinity College Dublin at the University of Dublin, Ireland. Th...

Study published in JAMA Internal Medicine News Release from University Hospitals The number of prostate cancer patients in the U.S. choosing active surveillance over surgery or radiation has rapidly increased since 2010, rising from 16% to 60% for low-risk patients and from 8% to 22% for patients ...

Research originating from the lab of Quintin Pan, PhD, co-leader of Case CCC's Molecular Oncology Program, was featured last week on cleveland.com. It was reported that the two drugs on which his lab is working are likely to stop HPV from causing cancer. Pan suggests that, even if the virus can't b...

The Office of Research and Technology Management has shared a number of research funding opportunities, including: Leveraging Big Data Science to Elucidate the Mechanisms of HIV Activity and Interaction with Substance Use Disorders (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) (RFA-DA-008) Department of Health...