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Case Western Reserve University signs license agreement to bring artificial intelligence breakthroughs closer to cancer patient care
Picture Health CEO reports initial round of seed funding is oversubscribed When Case Western Reserve research showed that artificial intelligence (AI) could identify which lung cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy, a national magazine called the finding one of the “10 Most Incredible…
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Student Spotlight: Suhib Jamal
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…
Weatherhead School dean will not seek second term
This story originally ran in the daily. Weatherhead School of Management Dean Manoj Malhotra has announced that he will not seek a second, five-year term to lead the school. In a message to the school’s faculty and staff, Malhotra wrote that he had made this decision “after considerable thought…
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NCURA Considerations on Retention and Recruitment for Senior Research Administrators
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…
"Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion" featured on best books list
Teambuilding.com has named Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth on its list of the “11 Best Coaching Books to Read for Work in 2022.” The book was published in 2019 and written by Weatherhead School of Management professors of organizational behavior,…
Researchers identify possible new target to treat newborns suffering from lack of oxygen or blood flow in the brain
The condition, known as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), can result in severe brain damage, which is why researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital (UH Rainbow) are studying the condition to evaluate how HIE…
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Researchers identify possible new target to treat newborns suffering from lack of oxygen or blood flow in the brain
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…
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Message From Stan: Congratulations Class Of 2022
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,…
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Gene editing improved with chemical process
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…
Researchers find favorable tradeoffs of PSA screening for prostate cancer
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…