Health + Wellness

Mark Hans, DDS, MSD, and CWRU Professor and Chair of the Orthodontics Department, delivered the 2023 John Valentine Mershon Award Lecture at the AAO 2023 Annual Session in Chicago.  The presentation, Two Score and Two Years-Lessons Learned, drew upon 42 years of clinical experience and more than…

Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues are seeking new uses for their synthetic solution. The latest application to show promise involves providing synthetic platelets to treat a genetic condition that prevents…

A century ago, Western Reserve University's trustee, Samuel Mather, gave $2.5 million to construct a new building marking the School of Medicine's establishment in University Circle from its downtown Cleveland location. The building was dedicated in October of the next year—in conjunction with the…

Nobel Laureates: Ferid Murad earned both his MD and PhD degrees in 1965 from the school. He was part of a team awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998—“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.”  Alumnus Alfred Gilman…

By discovering how zebrafish use their hair cells to detect distant movement, a team of Case Western Reserve University scientists may have found a path to help explain human hearing loss. Even though the tiny water creatures and humans would appear to have nothing in common, the structure and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…