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Four School of Medicine employees honored with staff awards
Matt Burdett, Jessica DeCaro, Maita Diaz and Lisa Tersigni have a few things in common. They not only consistently perform their job duties in an outstanding manner, but they steadily operate with an exemplary attitude. Because of this, the School of Medicine is proud to recognize them as this year’...
Keri and Eng to lead new Cleveland Clinic Breast Cancer Center of Excellence
The center will support a multi-investigator research team focused on discerning the role of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer progression. Ruth Keri, PhD, staff in the Department of Cancer Biology and associate director for basic research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Char...
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Staff Spotlight: Carlos Padilla
While working in research for Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) since 2019, Carlos Padilla made the shift to the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing from the CWRU School of Medicine this Spring. A research assistant, Padilla works with Professor Jaclene Zauszniewski’s team on a dementia ca...
1 in 5 people still use opioids 3 months after surgery
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Computational Biologist Ming Hu Receives $2.4M NIH Genomic Innovator Award
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded Department of Quantitative Health Sciences researcher Ming Hu, PhD, a five-year, $2.4 million grant to study how chromatin is organized within cells and its implications for human health and disease. The grant is part of NHGRI’s Genom...
Health-disparities
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‘Transformative’ $18.2M grant seeks to address health disparities for Black patients in Cleveland, Detroit
The ACHIEVE GreatER initiative part of multi-institution partnership among Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Wayne State University and Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority to address health outcomes Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Univ...