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COVID-19: bioethical issues raised by the pandemic
A Q&A with Case Western Reserve University Professor Mark Aulisio Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, weighed in on bioethical issues that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic…
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CWRU Researchers Can Now Apply for Access to the N3C Data Enclave
Case Western Reserve University has signed an institutional Data Use Agreement (DUA) with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Through this master agreement, CWRU faculty members (who receive their compensation directly from CWRU) are eligible to submit Data Use…
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Studying system biology at the atomic level
Outlet: Nature Methods Published: January 6, 2021 A ‘Build and Retrieve’ methodology to simultaneously solve cryo-EM structures of membrane proteins   Authors: Edward Yu, professor of pharmacology at CWRU School of Medicine and researchers from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK …
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Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration site awarded 10-year grant renewal for tuberculosis research
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration team were recently awarded a 10-year, $1.8 million per year, contract renewal from the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC), part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The TBTC is an international…
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Concurrent chemotherapy and antibiotic use associated with epithelial ovarian cancer outcomes
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic's Ob/Gyn & Women's Health Institute and Lerner Research Institute recently published a retrospective study in Gynecologic Oncology which found that women with newly diagnosed stage III or IV epithelial ovarian cancer and received antibiotics following cytoreductive…
Northeast Ohio leaders in healthcare and higher education partner with State, announce historic investment in Cleveland Innovation District
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted on Monday announced the Cleveland Innovation District, a transformational collaboration of Northeast Ohio's leading healthcare and higher education institutions. The Cleveland Innovation District brings together Case Western Reserve University,…
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Brawley, McCaskill-Stevens headline 5th Annual Cancer Disparities Symposium
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is once again hosting the Cancer Disparities Symposium, March 4-5, 2021. The symposium will take place virtually due to COVID restrictions. However, attendees can expect the same level of high-caliber research and an overall dedication to conquering health…
Year of the Nurse in the Era of COVID-19
In 2019, the World Health Organization Declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”—a Prediction that Proved Prescient Amid the Pandemic Janine Galeski has long helped families say goodbye to their loved ones. As a family nurse practitioner on a palliative care team in a Northeast Ohio…
Taking Flight
Thirty years ago, D. Todd Smith, PhD, loaded a crash victim into a medical helicopter and helped the flight nurse manage the patient’s airway with an endotracheal tube. It was at that moment—thousands of feet above the ground—that Smith found his footing in flight nursing.  Throughout his career,…