Health + Wellness

Breakthrough COVID-19 cases resulting in infections, hospitalizations and deaths are significantly more likely in cancer and Alzheimer’s patients, according to two new studies from researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. People with these diseases are often more…

CWRU Translational Fellows Program (TFP) seeks to train individuals in entrepreneurship and translation of innovation to benefit humanity by providing programs and workshops, protecting time for entrepreneurial activities, and establishing a network of peers and fellow entrepreneurs. We are…

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: PAR-22-167 The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award (CCIA) supports synergistic activities that accelerate the translational research process through collaboration and innovation. This…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) is providing seed funding to support the resubmission and/or competitive renewal efforts of strong grant applications that narrowly missed the payline at national funding agencies. Ideal candidates are those with R01 applications scored at the…

By Lisa Nichols, Carpantato Myles, Marianne Achenbach, and Jill Mortali  With an employment landscape that continues to evolve with no apparent abatement as we enter the third year of a global pandemic, the field  of research administration has not escaped  the labor shortages prevalent in other…

When graduating medical student Suhib Jamal opened his envelope on Match Day in March, it revealed his No. 1 choice for a residency: pediatrics at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s. He was thrilled to learn he would be staying in his hometown of Cleveland, allowing him the…

One of the most common causes of disability or death in newborns is a lack of oxygen or blood flow in the brain during labor or delivery. The condition, known as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), can result in severe brain damage, which is why researchers at Case Western Reserve University…

This past weekend collectively, as a medical school, we came together to celebrate the graduation of our medical students—our newest physician colleagues—the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine class of 2022.  Congratulations to the new physician graduates!  Of the 203 physician graduates,…

Case Western Reserve University researchers combine novel chemical method with CRISPR gene-editing tools to target disease-specific versions of genetic code The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR accelerated biological and medical research in the last decade by allowing scientists to repair…

Data support PSA screening, particularly in Black men, for whom there is a shortage of clinical trial evidence Prostate-cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood was introduced—and readily adopted—in the United States around the late 1980s. But this screening…