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Department Dialogues
This past month I had the opportunity to Zoom dialogue with each of the departments of the School of Medicine. I tried to set the stage with a few concepts but mostly wanted to listen to each of you. Here are some of the things that I learned. COVID-19 occupies our day every day and influences eve...
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CWRU and UH researchers secure $5 million in NCI funding to investigate relationships between HIV and lung cancer in East Africa
Researchers with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) have secured $5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish an HIV-associated Malignancy Research Center (HAM...
Medicine’s Mina Chung discusses long-term cardiac effects of COVID-19
Outlet: Today's Dietitian...
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Using AI to improve heart-transplant outcomes
Madabhushi lab working with researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Cleveland Clinic and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to begin training computers to glean from pathology images which patients will accept, reject heart transplant The team of biomedical researchers ...
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New research reveals why low oxygen damages the brain
Researchers uncover surprising dark side to the body’s normally protective low oxygen response system Brain cell dysfunction in low oxygen is, surprisingly, caused by the very same responder system that is intended to be protective, according to a new published study by a team of researchers at Cas...
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Gerson to serve as School of Medicine interim dean for another year
David Schwartz Photography Interim President Scott Cowen and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that Interim Dean Stan Gerson, MD has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. “We knew Stan’s deep familiarity with the medical school and its hospital partners would...
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Stan Gerson to serve as School of Medicine interim dean for another year
Interim President Scott Cowen and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that Interim Dean Stan Gerson has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. “We knew Stan’s deep familiarity with the medical school and its hospital partners would give him distinct advantages as he starte...
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$5.5 million NIH grant supports new tests to diagnose dementias earlier and easier
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine seek to optimize emerging methods of diagnosing two common neurodegenerative diseases—dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia—that affect 1.4 million in the United States With a $5.5 million, five-year award from t...