Research Impact

Illustration of a neuroscience lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, with researchers at shared desks and computers around a giant spine, a wall-sized brain diagram, neurons, and an MRI scanner, plus people using a wheelchair and a cane.
October 13, 2026
Nerve center: Inside the ISEB’s NeuroTechnology research cluster at Case Western Reserve
Researchers who have spent decades restoring individuals’ movement, sensation and function are moving in to drive further solutions to neurological conditions
Illustration of a drug-discovery research lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, where researchers work at benches and computer desks beneath a giant cell, an atom model, a molecular chain, and a wall-mounted brain connected to circuitry.
October 09, 2026
Collaborative cures: Inside the ISEB’s Molecular Therapeutics research cluster
By assembling researchers with complementary expertise under one roof, Case Western Reserve is building the critical mass needed to move drug discoveries from the laboratory to patients
Illustration of a biomedical research space in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, with researchers in lab coats gathered around a heart, a blood vessel, and lungs displayed under glass domes, beneath a giant blood bag, floating blood cells and viruses, and screens showing a brain scan and health data.
October 07, 2026
Targeting solutions: Inside the ISEB’s Precision Diagnostics & Therapeutics research cluster at Case Western Reserve University
How a team of Case Western Reserve researchers is turning a decade of collaboration—and a portfolio of real-world innovations—into the future of precision medicine
The professor stands in front of shelves filled with books, holding a copy of his book: The Empire of Depression.
October 07, 2026
Why we should care about history: a medical historian’s perspective
Are old solutions ‘old’ because they became useless, and is the past irrelevant because it will never happen again?
Illustration of a materials science lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building with researchers in lab coats working at benches of glassware and microscopes, surrounded by oversized material samples, a robotic arm, a large beaker of bubbling liquid, a roller press, and a testing machine.
October 05, 2026
Forged for impact: Inside the ISEB's Advanced Materials & Manufacturing research cluster
Case Western Reserve researchers are rethinking the materials behind everyday life—and the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building is giving them the space to do it together.
Illustration depicting a cross-section view of the five-story Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, with illustrated people working in various colorful, science-themed rooms, including laboratories, offices, and gathering areas, surrounded by trees on a campus setting.
September 28, 2026
A new home for discovery and collaboration at Case Western Reserve University
189,000 square feet of dedicated research space.7 research clusters working to solve problems that matter.300 researchers breaking down silos to share expertise, ideas and tools.1 question: What happens when you stop organizing science around disciplines and start organizing it around problems?Case…
An illustration of a space in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering building shows researchers, glassware, oversized batteries, tanks, and machinery across orange workstations.
September 28, 2026
Charged with purpose: Inside Case Western Reserve's Galm electrochemical cluster
Researchers in the James M. Galm Electrochemical Engineering & Energy Science research cluster are tackling the chemistry behind batteries, semiconductors, critical metals and clean energy
Illustration depicting a cross-section view of the five-story Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, with illustrated people working in various colorful, science-themed rooms, including laboratories, offices, and gathering areas, surrounded by trees on a campus setting.
September 23, 2026
Where problems are solved: Get to know the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at Case Western Reserve University
This story is the first in a series introducing the research, people and building that will define Case Western Reserve’s next chapter of discovery. Over the coming weeks, we’ll go inside each of the seven research clusters and the resources that make the work possible. When the Interdisciplinary…
A pipet drips liquid into an array of test tubes.
September 17, 2026
Tracking a changing drug supply
Researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education are supporting a pilot drug checking program that could save lives.
Seven students and a faculty member pose together in white lab coats inside a research laboratory, smiling at the camera. Shelves, equipment, and research materials are visible in the background.
September 09, 2026
CWRU researchers’ out-of-the-box investigation on skull bone growth and fusing processes
Radhika P. Atit, PhDProfessor in the Department of Biology at the College of Arts and SciencesThe inspiration for out-of-the-box research ideas might sometimes come from “dreams.” That was the case for the latest research of Radhika P. Atit, PhD, professor in the Department of Biology at the…